Debugging ASP.NET

Chapter 8. Leveraging the Windows 2000 Event Log

WHILE YOU ARE DEVELOPING A WEB APPLICATION, if something goes wrong and you receive a page error, you get feedback right on the screen. You can then use that information to track down the source of the error and fix it. After you put your web application into production, however, you are not always there when a problem occurs. Without a way to track these errors, they could go unnoticed for days or even weeks. A great solution to this problem is to leverage the Windows 2000 Event Log. This chapter explains what the Windows 2000 Event Log is and tells how to implement it in your web applications. ...