Using ELMAH in a console application

Question

I just started using ELMAH and am a fan. My team supports a large number of web applications and I'm particularly excited that ELMAH lets us save exceptions from each application to the same MS SQL database table.

We also support a few console, DLL and desktop applications. Is it possible to use the ELMAH DLL to log exceptions in these apps to that same location?

Answer 1

If you just want to email the log without http you can do like this:

    public class MyElmahMail: ErrorMailModule
    {
        public MyElmahMail()
        {
//this basically just gets config from errorMail  (app.config)
            base.OnInit(new HttpApplication());
        }
        public void Log(Error error)
        {
//just send the email pls
            base.ReportError(error);
        }
    }

//to call it
var mail = new MyElmahMail();
mail.Log(new Error(new NullReferenceException()));//whatever exception u want to log

And in terms of app.config

//Under configSections
    <sectionGroup name="elmah">
      <section name="security" requirePermission="false" type="Elmah.SecuritySectionHandler, Elmah" />
      <section name="errorLog" requirePermission="false" type="Elmah.ErrorLogSectionHandler, Elmah" />
      <section name="errorMail" requirePermission="false" type="Elmah.ErrorMailSectionHandler, Elmah" />
      <section name="errorFilter" requirePermission="false" type="Elmah.ErrorFilterSectionHandler, Elmah" />
    </sectionGroup>

And

  <elmah>
    <errorLog type="Elmah.XmlFileErrorLog, Elmah" logPath="C:\Elmah.Error" applicationName="MyAwesomeApp" />
    <errorMail from="[e-mail]" to="[e-mail]" />
  </elmah>

And smtp settings of your choice.

All done. :-)