How to enable and disable ELMAH in web.config and in code behind?

Question

I am using ELMAH for error reporting in my ASP.NET projects. Everything is working great, except when I debug a project I don't want to send an email report to the allowed users. How can I accomplish this feat?

Answer 1

Assuming you have different web.config files for your development and production environments, just disable Elmah in your development web.config. You'll want to comment out (or remove) the Elmah.ErrorLogModule element in the httpModules section.

Answer 2

Maybe you can use ErrorFiltering to turn off the email logging in the Global.asax. Something like:

void ErrorMail_Filtering(object sender, ExceptionFilterEventArgs e)
{

#if DEBUG
    e.Dismiss();
#endif

}