does elmah handle caught exceptions as well

I was wondering if something like elmah logged exceptions even when they do not bubble up to the application? I'd like to pop up a message when an exception occurs and still log the exception. Currently I've been putting everything in try catch blocks and spitting out messages, but this gets tedious.

From stackoverflow

• You can always do something like:

  try
  {
      //something exceptional happens
  }
  catch (Exception ex)
  {
      MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString());
      throw;
  }
  

  That will allow you to process the exception and will still cause it to be thrown and handled by elmah.

  spoon16 : I can't delete this answer (because it has been accepted). The solution described by Michael La Voie is much better than mine. Please do not down vote to much :)

• If the exception is handled by something else, then Elmah will ignore it.

  You could simply rethrow the exception if you need it logged by elmah.

• ELMAH has been updated to support a new feature called Signaling.

  This allows you to handle exceptions how you want, while still logging them to ELMAH.

  try
  {
      int i = 5;
      int j = 0;
      i = i / j; //Throws exception
  }
  catch (Exception ex)
  {
      MyPersonalHandlingCode(ex);
      ErrorSignal.FromCurrentContext().Raise(ex); //ELMAH Signaling
  }
  

  Re-throwing exceptions can be a bad practice as it makes it difficult to trace the flow of an application. Using Signaling is a much better approach if you intended to handle the error in some fashion and simply want to document it.

  Please check out this excellent guide by DotNetSlackers on ELMAH