Question

I’ve been doing some research on how to globally handle errors in my ASP.NET application. I have settled on using the web.config file with the following code:

<customErrors mode='On' defaultRedirect='errorpage.aspx'> </customErrors> 

Here is my errorpage.aspx.vb code:

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load     Dim ex As Exception = Server.GetLastError End Sub 

The problem I am experiencing is Server.GetLastError ends up being nothing. What do I have to do to be able to access the last error info? Since it is on an asp form page, I shouldn’t have to prepend HttpContext.Current. to the Server.GetLastError, correct?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can capture global errors using the global.asax.

The error page is loaded via a simple http redirect and unfortunately doesn’t know what the last error for a particular user was.