ELMAH Tutorials or Screencasts?

[dm3281]

Does anyone know of any online tutorials or screencasts for ELMAH?

Any sort of getting started guide is lacking in the download and
although it seems simple, once you get things setup, it took me a long
time to figure out all the components I needed to get going.

Yes, I downloaded the sample application. But still wanted to know
what to call the database and what/where I needed to change connection
string... etc.

Great application, though!

[Atif Aziz]

Thanks for your feedback. I'd love to see this too and would be grateful
if some kind soul would like to contribute this kind of material. In
fact, I don't know if people are aware, but Google Groups just went into
beta with the upcoming version which makes some community contributions
a breeze. You can already try it here for this group:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/elmah

Two of the new interesting additions are that members can upload files
and even create pages to share information with peers. So if someone
writes a tutorial, it can be up in seconds and others can even improve
on it.

There's also Windows Media Encoder that makes it child's play to create
a screencast. Any takers?

Windows Media Encoder can be downloaded and installed from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.ms
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- or -
http://tinyurl.com/g37zo

- Atif

[dm3281]

Hi --

I have Camtasia Studio and can do this.

Could you give a list of steps to perform and I can then do a
screencast of performing all them.

I'm guessing something like:

1) Download file (where/how)

2) Unzip

3) Create database

4) Run SQL script

5) Edit web.config (if necessary)

6) How to install in a vdir or possibly in the GAC

7) How to use test application

8) how to access virtual ELMAH directory and RSS.

I can do this... but I just want to make sure I know what I'm talking
about before I do it... :)

[Atif Aziz]

First of all, thanks for volunteering to do this.

> 1) Download file (where/how)

There are many places to begin. :-P

You could go start from the MSDN article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/elmah.asp

My project page for ELMAH:
http://www.raboof.com/projects/elmah

The discussion board:
http://groups.google.com/group/elmah
Go to "About group" then "Public website" (which leads to my project
page for ELMAH)

The URLs for the last two are easy to type. The important thing is to
end up on the MSDN article and download from there.

> 2) Unzip

This is an MSI package so just run it.
Once the MSI package is installed, there is ELMAH's MSI in the installed
directory. The outer MSI installs the sample web site only. The second
actually un-packages and installs ELMAH.

> 3) Create database

It would be interesting to show two scenarios here. Install ELMAH in a
separate database of its own or as part of an existing application. If
you're pressed for time, you can do the former but mention the latter.

> 4) Run SQL script

Yep! Don't forget to switch to the right database. I believe the scripts
don't do this. With OSQL, this would look something like:

osql -S -E -d ELMAH Database.sql

> 5) Edit web.config (if necessary)

Well, either you modify web.config or machine.config. I think it would
be worth to plan the screencast on two sample apps. One that enables
ELMAH in its web.config and another that inherits through
machine.config? Again, depends on how much time you wish to invest here.

> 6) How to install in a vdir or possibly in the GAC

For the GAC installation, I would recommend select the check box during
the MSI installation. This adds ELMAH to the GAC but machine.config is
not touched.

> 7) How to use test application

Cool.

8) how to access virtual ELMAH directory and RSS.

Would be nice to see the RSS pop in an RSS reader, but this is not a
must.

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Thanks for volunteering again! I'm sure it'll spread like wild fire. :)

[dm3281]

I will see what I can do.

I'm re-installing this on one of my production servers and seem to be
having issues... I'll create another thread for that.

[Sonu Kapoor]

I would be more then happy to publish the Screencast or Tutorial on
http://dotnetslackers.com to spread the word about ELMAH. I have been
using it for a while as well, and have to agree that I miss these
step-by-step or tutorials as well.

Regards