Is it okay to use Elmah instead of try/catch?

Question

I have been using Elmah for an MVC application and my question is

Is it a bad practice to not write try catch statement when using Elmah?

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 26 '12 at 12:09

10

ELMAH is used to log unhandled exceptions. If you can handle the exception I would strongly suggest that you do.

If you still want to log the exceptions to ELMAH, you can do so:

try {
  ...
}
catch (Exception e) {
  Elmah.ErrorSignal.FromCurrentContext().Raise(e)
}

answered Sep 26 '12 at 12:09

Xharze

if i don put try catch all Exceptions will be unhandled and caught and logged by elmah ? Is it wrong ? – user2067567 Apr 25 '13 at 12:54
why should i add try catch ?can u give sm idea ? – user2067567 Apr 26 '13 at 05:14
You should add try..catch when you want to handle the exception gracefully, for example to give the user a friendly error message – Xharze Apr 26 '13 at 14:12
suppose if i have one common error page with custom Errors ON. Do i still need that ? – user2067567 Apr 26 '13 at 14:13
No in that case a try..catch is not needed – Xharze Apr 27 '13 at 19:30

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