Elmah vs Elmah.MVC Nuget Package - Which to use & why?

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niico picture niico · May 23, 2013 · Viewed 13.8k times · Source

I have Code First MVC 4 application.

I tried installing the NuGet package for logging Elmah - and everything seemed to work fine - Errors were reported fine at http://myapp/elmah.axd

I then noticed there was an Elmah.MVC package - so i removed the original one, and installed that. It no longer worked here: http://myapp/elmah.axd

I have read in a few places that for MVC apps, you should use the 'Elmah.MVC' package - rather than the 'Elmah' package - but why is this? What would the practical difference be? Is this still the case with MVC 4 sites?

It is strange the original package works out of the box and the MVC one doesn't.

Which should I use and why?

Answer

Rhapsody picture Rhapsody · May 23, 2013

According to the Nuget website, you can access Elmah using the url /elmah.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/Elmah.MVC

Painless integration of ELMAH functionality into ASP.NET MVC Application. Just drop the package inside you ASP.NET MVC application and access /elmah URL. It will also install global HandleError filter, that guarantees all unhandled errors is logged (even if customerError turned "On").

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