c# - elmah: exceptions without HttpContext?

Question

I spawn a thread on Application_Start and would like to log exceptions. There is no Context/HttpContext/HttpContext.Current, so how might I get it to log?

At the moment, it does not catch any exception in my threads and if I write ErrorSignal.FromCurrentContext().Raise(ex); I get an error about context cannot be null.

Maybe I can create a dummy HttpContext but somehow I don't think that will work well.

-edit- I tried ErrorSignal.Get(new HttpApplication()).Raise(ex); and it doesn't seem to pick up that exception.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2108404/elmah-exceptions-without-httpcontext

Answer 1

Make sure you set your application name in web.config

<errorLog type="Elmah.SqlErrorLog, Elmah" 
          connectionStringName="nibWeb" 
          applicationName="Nib.Services" />

and then

ErrorLog.GetDefault(null).Log(new Error(error));

will work