ELMAH - Exception Logging without having HttpContext

Solution 1:

I'm answering my own question.

I tried adding following in my web.config

<system.serviceModel>
  <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" />
</system.serviceModel>

Also decorated my Service with following attribute

[AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Required)]    
public class CalculatorService : ICalculatorSession    
{
    // Implement calculator service methods
 }

Still no use. Then I got the solution here by which you can use Elmah without HTTPContext. i.e. log errors by writing

Elmah.ErrorLog.GetDefault(null).Log(new Error(ex));

instead of

Elmah.ErrorSignal.FromCurrentContext().Raise(error);

Solution 2:

Thanks everyone, here is my ErrorHelper class I came up with to manually log errors on websites and in WCF services, windows services, etc:

    public static class ErrorHelper
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Manually log an exception to Elmah.  This is very useful for the agents that try/catch all the errors.
    /// 
    /// In order for this to work elmah must be setup in the web.config/app.config file
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="ex"></param>
    public static void LogErrorManually(Exception ex)
    {
        if (HttpContext.Current != null)//website is logging the error
        {                
            var elmahCon = Elmah.ErrorSignal.FromCurrentContext();
            elmahCon.Raise(ex);
        }
        else//non website, probably an agent
        {                
            var elmahCon = Elmah.ErrorLog.GetDefault(null);
            elmahCon.Log(new Elmah.Error(ex));
        }
    }
}