Thomas Ardal

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.

Denmark
319 posts
CryptographicException: The key ... was not found in the key ring (IIS)

I talked with a user the other day experiencing this error on a website hosted on IIS: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: The key {...} was not found in the key ring. It's a common error that can happen when hosting .NET code on IIS, why I want to put ...

Working towards GDPR compliance

Since writing this post, elmah.io is now 100% GDPR compliant. Check out Security and GDPR Commitment for details. You may have heard about GDPR or the General Data Protection Regulation. It's a new set of directives that every company dealing with EU citizens needs to follow. We ...

Introducing Uptime Monitoring

Something struck me back in December. We've written a lot about the new Uptime Monitoring feature on the blog, our newsletter and more. But we never actually introduced the new system as a whole (which probably just shows that we are more nerds than business men :). So, either ...

elmah.io User Survey 2017

Back in December, we decided to try out something new. Some of the tool vendors we look up to, send out a yearly user survey. We talk with a lot of our users through the support, but when thinking about it, a survey seemed like a good idea to measure ...

New Hire at elmah.io: Kristoffer Strube

Everyone, please welcome Kristoffer Strube to the elmah.io team. Kristoffer is a young up-and-coming star, hired as a student programmer on elmah.io. I'll let Kristoffer introduce himself: "Hi, I'm Kristoffer. I’m originally from Horsens, Denmark, but right now I live in Aarhus ...

Follow all changes on elmah.io

If you are a recurring reader of this blog, you know that we announce major new features here once in a while. Major new features are not the only priority of the elmah.io development team. We constantly make adjustments, fix bugs, create minor features not worth mentioning on the ...

Great .NET Conferences to Attend

Looking for .NET conferences to attend? You are in luck! There's a lot of options out there. While most good conferences about .NET are arranged by Microsoft themselves, there are some great alternatives spread across both Europe and the US. This list is my attempt to sum up ...

Continuous Deployment of Azure Functions with Slots

Time for another post in our series about Azure Functions. This is the fifth post in the series about Azure Functions: * Part 1: An introduction to Azure Functions and why we migrate * Part 2: Migrating a Topshelf consumer to a Function running on Azure * Part 3: Configure and deploy Azure ...

Mark errors as fixed, dashboards and more

Some of you may have noticed the recent changes on elmah.io already. A week ago, we silently introduced a lightweight issue tracker, right there on the search view. We want to provide you with the tools to do more than just error logging. As part of a successful .NET ...