Thomas Ardal

I have been implementing a couple of features lately that allow users to download files. During this process, I have visited various namespaces and possibilities with ASP.NET Core. In an attempt not to forget what I have learned and in the hope that this knowledge can be used by ...

You typically don't and shouldn't need to know where a web app is deployed. At least not from within the code of the web app itself. I keep seeing questions related to this, though. There are a range of reasons why this can still be relevant ...

We love exceptions. Not in the oh-no-my-website-crashed kind of way, but all of the possibilities provided by exceptions and a good exception handling strategy. In this post, I'll introduce you to three different NuGet packages that will help you when dealing with exceptions in C#. .NET comes with ...

While developing the ecosystem around the elmah.io API and App Store, we see an increasing interest and adoption of GitHub and the services around it. We have a range of integrations with GitHub that I’ll introduce you to later in this document. But first of all, I’m ...

When developing the new exception landing pages we recently launched (like insert exception link here), I wanted to pull some statistics from Reddit. While looking through various ways to integrate, I found an easy approach that I want to share with you in this post. You probably already know Reddit, ...

In the previous post in this series about building documentation sites with MkDocs, I showed you how to host a site on GitHub Pages. We briefly touched upon GitHub Actions, the integrated build and deployment server available on GitHub. In this post, I'll continue the example and get ...

This is the second post in my blog series about MkDocs. If you haven't already, head over to Creating a documentation site with MkDocs since this post will build upon the site we created in that post. In this post, I'll show how to easily host ...

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 ...