Tomorrow night, Tuesday January 16th, I'll be speaking at the ASP.NET Specicial Interest Group here in San Diego. The meeting, held at Microsoft's office in UTC on La Jolla Village Drive east of Genese, starts at 6:30 PM with announcements and free pizza and soft drinks!!! I'll start blathering around 7:00.
My talk examines techniques for handling errors in an ASP.NET web application and includes looking at:
- Using custom, human-friendly error pages (avoid the Yellow Screen of Death!)
- Techniques for automatically logging unhandled exceptions
- Ways to automatically notify developers in the face of an unhandled exception
- How to handle exceptions that arise from the depths of ASP.NET 2.0's data source controls. That is, we'll see how to handle exceptions that occur when you are working with data in an ASP.NET 2.0 page using the SqlDataSource control and a GridView and an exception is raised from the database layer.
If you can't make the talk, you can download the PowerPoint slides and code demos here. Hope to see you tomorrow!