Thomas Ardal

In order to improve security, as well as to enable client-side logging to elmah.io, we've introduced API key permissions. API keys were introduced in v3 of the elmah.io API. All requests to the API needs to send a valid API key, administered from the organization settings ...

This post is about most of the tools I use as a .NET developer. As always, let me know if you think something is missing. I'm always on the lookout for new tools to help me be a better developer. Let's get started with my list ...

The elmah.io API has seen three major iterations so far. Two years ago, we launched v3 in beta and last year, we moved the new version as well as all client integrations to stable. Time has come to deprecate the old v2 API. So what does that mean for ...

This is the first part of a new series named Debugging common .NET exception. For this first installment, we'll take a look at System.Net.WebException with the message of "The remote name could not be resolved: 'name'". WebException is an umbrella-exception, used for ...

We are currently building an advisory board (remember Simon?). Getting feedback from people longer down the path, is a great way to improve your product/business and enable some shortcuts. Today, I'm happy to introduce you to: Peter Terkildsen. Here's a few words from Peter: " ...

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, ...