Thomas Ardal

Both NLog and log4net are two very popular choices, when selecting a logging framework for .NET applications. In this post, you will learn all about both frameworks and the differences. For those of you who don't know one or both of the frameworks, let's start with ...

It's interesting how you sometimes build a feature, launch it, and people use it for something you didn't anticipate. This turned out to be the case with the ELMAH configuration validator that we launched two years ago. The idea was to be able to upload a ...

If you are an elmah.io newsletter subscriber, you may have heard about an ebook we are writing named .NET Web Application Logging Essentials. You know, the one with the Log Lady on the cover: I'm happy to report, that the ebook is now available. To get your ...

TOC Extending your IDE is the new black and we also use a lot of extensions every day in our daily work. Previously, we used a lot of different development tools (alongside Visual Studio), but that changed when Microsoft launched Visual Studio Code. We haven't replaced Visual Studio, ...

Recording and publishing video is something that we have done from time to time. We never really had a good series of videos, explaining the different features available on elmah.io. Until today! We've published 8 short tutorials on the elmah.io YouTube channel. Each explains one of ...

Since writing this post, Dashman has been shut down. This is a guest post by J. Pablo Fernández, the founder of Dashman. Dashman is an online service that helps you control what to put on your wall-mounted big screen tv's. There are two ways of knowing the health ...

Time for another new face here at elmah.io. Since losing one of the co-founders, we have been in serious need of a frontender. We finally managed to find the perfect fit for the job: Eduard-Dan Stanescu. Eduard is a versatile developer from Romania, with a very impressive history. In ...

When running a service like elmah.io, performance is everything. We receive a lot of requests daily and a few ms actually make a difference both in the time clients need to wait for a reply, as well as our Cloud spending. We are running a range of different performance ...

NLog 4.5 were published a little over a week ago and we want to show our support with a compatible version too. As of today, our integration (Elmah.Io.NLog) runs on NLog 4.5 and also supports the new structured logging feature available in 4.5. All samples ...