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ASP.NET 2.0 and beyond, ELMAH works with ASP.NET 1.0 and higher. August 2006 installment of Toolbox (see msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/08/ Toolbox). Since then, Atif has updated ELMAH to include a number of new features and performance enhancements As I mentioned, by default, ELMAH provider, however, now with exception circumstances an error should be dismissed (and therefore not logged). Furthermore, the latest version of ELMAH also gives you the ability to download the entire error log as a .csv for large error logs. At their core, health monitoring and ELMAH provide the same functionality for logging errors in an ASP.NET application. Some developers prefer the health monitoring system because of its ability to monitor many different types of events. Others prefer ELMAH because of its built-in error log display capabilities and its support for ASP.NET version 1.x applications. In the long run, which error logging platform you choose is immaterial. What is essential, however, is that you have a rigorous error-logging system in place to record every single gory detail of those inevitable application errors. Price: Free. Health monitoring: go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ ?LinkId=109807 ELMAH: go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=109809 Blogs of Note I recently was talking with a colleague and mentioned a post from Jeff Atwood’s blog, Coding Horror. My colleague had never heard of the blog and asked me what it was about. The best I could offer was that it covered “computers and programming and stuff.” as it spans a wide and deep variety of topics. There are very technical posts (usually about ASP.NET and Web-related technologies) alongside suggestions for becoming a better programmer and making better project management decisions. Other posts evaluate computer hardware, comparing brands of motherboards, mice, or monitors. There are in consumer gadgets and clever fare such as dieting and exercise for geeks, the future of blogging, the problem with EULAs, and the history of DONKEY.BAS. his views on the state of higher educa- *]QTL QV\MZIK\Q^M LQIOZIU[ MI[QMZ \PIV aW] M^MZ QUIOQVML 8W_MZN]T Ð M`QJTM IVL MI[a\W][M ,W_VTWIL ?Q\P .]TT ;]XXWZ\ cVReV Tfde`^ Z_eVcRTeZgV UZRXcR^d _Veh`c\ VUZe`cd h`c\W]`hd W]`hTYRced R_U UVdZX_ e``]d 7`c hVS dVcgVcd `c ]`TR] Raa]ZTReZ`_d :e|d VRdj e`fdV R_U gVcj W]ViZS]V HV|cV eYV WZcde UVgV]`aVc `W UZRXcR^^Z_X T`^a`_V_ed R_U deZ]] eYV SVde 7Z_U `fe W`c j`fcdV]W+ U`h_]`RU `fc 7C66 Wf]]j Wf_TeZ`_R] VgR]fReZ`_ \Ze hZeY Wf]] dfaa`ce Re hhh_h``UdT`^ .:-- Toolbox april2008 V_WWL[KWU 13 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=109807 http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/08/Toolbox http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=109807 http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/08/Toolbox http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=109809 http://www.nwoods.com http://www.nwoods.com http://www.nwoods.com

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MSDN Magazine - April 2008 Contents Toolbox CLR Inside Out Basic Instincts Cutting Edge Foundations Test Run Service Station Windows with C++ Going Places { End Bracket }

MSDN Magazine - April 2008

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