TOC Today's tip isn't exactly about a hot new version of ASP.NET Core or anything like that. I often find myself googling "simple" questions like how to write text to a file in the quickest and effective way. Most results are either blog ...
Thomas Ardal
Meet Thomas, the founder and developer behind elmah.io. Thomas blogs about everything technical from C# and ASP.NET Core to machine learning.
How to write to a file with C# - StackOverflow doesn't get it right
C# exception handling best practices
I'm getting near my 20th anniversary in the tech industry. During the years, I have seen almost every anti-pattern when dealing with exceptions (and made the mistakes personally as well). This post contains a collection of my best practices when dealing with exceptions in C#. Don't ...
Fix max URL and query string length with web.config and IIS
I had a problem the other day that I believe qualifies as a blog post. An elmah.io user reported that refreshing the organization overview would generate a 404. After debugging the problem, I found out that the URL generated by that page can be too long. This post is ...
OAuth authentication with Facebook and ASP.NET Core
The aim of this post is to teach you how to implement Identity Authentication & Authorization with ASP.NET Core. We will begin with a cookie-cutter Microsoft starter project, and then modify it to use Kendo in a future post. First Things First First, I'll walk you through ...
Partner with BrowserStack to support real-device debugging
Since writing this post the BrowserStack integration has been removed. When dealing with client-side errors, the combination of a physical device, the operating system, and the browser can be the cause of an error. You probably don't have an old Samsung Galaxy S4 running Android 4 laying in ...
Migrating the elmah.io API to ASP.NET Core
We just launched a brand new version of our API. The big difference is that the API is now running on ASP.NET Core (instead of ASP.NET Web API). The new API is backward compatible with all of the existing integrations already using Elmah.Io.Client version 3.x. ...
Structured logging vNext
We have had support for structured logging on elmah.io ever since we released the first integrations with logging frameworks like Serilog and NLog. With today's release, we have made a range of improvements which qualify for an announcement post. When logging messages to elmah.io from a ...
Web.config location element demystified
I haven't actually met a lot of people who knew the details about the hierarchy of Web.config files and how to utilize the location element. In fact, I've heard multiple people ask "why is there a Web.config file in the Views folder of ...
Web.config redirects with rewrite rules - https, www, and more
TOC Rewrite rules are a powerful feature in IIS. Common tasks like redirecting www to non-www (or the other way around), implementing canonical URLs, redirecting to HTTPS, and similar tasks are documented right there in your Web.config file. In this post, you will learn about the syntax of rewrite ...