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ELWEA – EventLog WebEvent Aggregator for ASP.NET

Last time I wrote about Health Monitoring was during 2008 and since then I ‘m using, on a daily basis, a complex Health Monitoring EventLog provider to aggregate WebEvents from specific ASP.NET web applications.

Last year I found ELMAH (Error Logging Module and Handler) project and became a fan of the concept:

“[…] facility that is completely pluggable. It can be dynamically added to a running ASP.NET web application, or even all ASP.NET web applications on a machine, without any need for re-compilation or re-deployment.”

It didn’t take much time until I start thinking  about releasing a version of my EventLog WebEvents aggregator. read more

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ASP.NET Controls – CommunityServer Captcha ControlAdapter, a practical case

The ControlAdapter is available since .NET framework version 2.0 and his main goal is to adapt and customize a control render in order to achieve a specific behavior or layout. This customization is done without changing the base control.

A ControlAdapter is commonly used to custom render for specific platforms like Mobile.

In this particular case the ControlAdapter was used to add a specific behavior to a Control. In this  post I will use one adapter to add a Captcha to all WeblogPostCommentForm controls within pontonetpt.com CommunityServer instance. read more