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Willy
Willy

Reputation: 1729

Using Elmah and NLog in MVC4

I'm using Elmah in my MVC4 application for handle exception. Then I installed NLog for debugging. When there is an exception 

try
{
    // There is exception occured here
}
catch (DataException ex)
{
    logger.Log(LogLevel.Error, dex.Message);
    ModelState.AddModelError("", "Unable to save changes");
}

Why NLog doesn't log the exception while elmah does? I want to log the exception using NLog and elmah, how to configure them?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2757

Answers (1)

KerSplosh
KerSplosh

Reputation: 466

I decided to post this as an answer as it was not clear in comments:

The NLog Documentation give a desciption of how to construct your web.config (or use a separate configuration file)

You need this block in your web.config

<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="nlog" type="NLog.Config.ConfigSectionHandler, NLog"/>
  </configSections>
  <nlog>
     **** Nlog specific settings go here *****
  </nlog>
</configuration>

Some example NLog settings:

  <variable name="logDirectory" value="${basedir}/logs/${shortdate}"/>
  <targets>
    <target name="file1" xsi:type="File" fileName="${logDirectory}/file1.txt"/>
    <target name="file2" xsi:type="File" fileName="${logDirectory}/file2.txt"/>
  </targets>

Upvotes: 2

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