How to get ELMAH to work with ASP.NET MVC [HandleError] attribute?

Question

I am trying to use ELMAH to log errors in my ASP.NET MVC application, however when I use the [HandleError] attribute on my controllers ELMAH doesn\'t log any errors when the

Answer 1

For me it was very important to get email logging working. After some time I discover that this need only 2 lines of code more in Atif example.

public class HandleErrorWithElmahAttribute : HandleErrorAttribute
{
    static ElmahMVCMailModule error_mail_log = new ElmahMVCMailModule();

    public override void OnException(ExceptionContext context)
    {
        error_mail_log.Init(HttpContext.Current.ApplicationInstance);
        [...]
    }
    [...]
}

I hope this will help someone :)