Thomas Ardal

Over the next couple of weeks (don't know exactly how many posts will turn out of this) I will blog about how we have developed our documentation site. The site is built on top of MkDocs, a custom theme, and a bunch of Markdown files. In this first ...

I have been writing a couple of integration with the Stack Overflow API for both the elmah.io app and some public exceptions pages that we launched recently (like System.DivideByZeroException). For this post, I want to show you how to pull data from Stack Overflow with C#. For demo ...

You may remember Dark Screen of Death, the Chrome extension to bring dark mode to ASP.NET Core exception pages that we launched back in February. I probably should have followed the commits on the aspnetcore repository more closely, since it turns out that ASP.NET Core 7 comes with ...

While doing some new .NET exception landing pages to link to from the elmah.io app, I had some fun challenges integrating with various services. One of them is YouTube to show relevant YouTube search results on the page. In this post, I'll share with you how to ...

I have been playing around with the Trello REST API recently. To my surprise, there doesn't seem to be any actively developed client package for .NET and Trello doesn't show examples in C# on their website. Here's a quick overview of what I have ...

We silently launched a new beta feature on elmah.io a couple of weeks ago: Lighthouse results. Let me spend a couple of minutes of your time introducing the new feature and how to use it. You may already know Lighthouse. In case you don't, here's ...

As part of elmah.io Uptime Monitoring, we offer SSL expiration warnings. We recently both simplified the code and had to do some additional parsing of the common names in the certificates. This post is a summary of how we did that. When dealing with SSL certificates in C#, that ...

Ever experienced being blinded during late-hour work by the developer exception page in ASP.NET Core? What is commonly referred to as the "White Screen of Death" (WSoD) is great for inspecting exceptions while developing: But this page is just so bright that when you launch a website ...

I had to write some C# downloading multiple blobs from Azure Blob Storage using the Azure.Storage.Blobs NuGet package. To my surprise, no bulk option exists (at least not to my knowledge). Here's a quick summary of how I somewhat achieved this. As mentioned already, there are ...