All,

In Chapter 5 Vince discussions the Exception Handling Block and I really enjoyed it. However, I do have one question I would like to pose to the group. When an exception occurs we can log it and send an email, which is perfect.

However, we configure all our .net applications to use a SMTP relay server (this is done in the machine.config) and we do not go directly to the exchange server. We use several relay servers, one for development/QA and the other for production.

One reason we use it is to prevent a developer from accidently spamming the exchange server. Which has happened several times. Anyway, not sure how to get the Exception Block to use the relay server. I've given it the port and IP address of the relay server, but no email and nothing logged on the relay server.

I can get it to work going directly to the exchange server, but we would be right back to spamming the exchange server. Any help would be great, this way I could use the Enterprise Exception Block.

If not then I could always use the Global.asax and trap, log and send email manually.

Thanks,
-realkewl

I am not sure of the Relay Server, you have mentioned here.

But, I have failed to achieve the objective of the Ch5, i.e. Application event log having the entry with source of Enterprise Library Logging. Also, I could not email the exception details.

I was wondering if you were successful in achieving this, as the book explains.

Hello,

I was not able to get it to work using the Relay server, but it does work according to the book.

We do not use the exception handling block. We use the global.asax to catch any application level unhandled exceptions, and we just wrote our our logging routine and then send an email. Also, we do the same thing for page level unhandleds. Just put it in the basepage.vb and if any page throws an unhandled error it is caught at the page level. Almost the same code as the global.asax.

Hope this helps.
-realkewl