ASP.NET and externalizing error messages

[NW Technicals]

Hello Folks,
I am trying to develop a webbased applicaiton for which I thought of
externalizing the error messages.
Earlier in my life when I had similar problem with different technologies I
have stored the errorMessage with an errorNumber associated in a Database

Used to retrieve the string with errorNumber . The string could be
maintained easily outside the code base and it was convenient

I was trying to do the same in ASP.NET and getting into lot of troubles.
Could you guys point me to a detailed article on it

I am thinking of storing in Resourcefiles
If I do this can I use resource in all Layers of my application(I know I
will not be able to use in StoredProcs)

What if I use an XML file
stroing like errorNo and errormessage

If I go this route of XML file for message where should I store this file
and how do access this file as this is not a code file I know this does
not have a namespace. I guess I need to point to a absolute or relative path
to this file how to do it

Thanks in Advance

[apathetic]

NW Technicals wrote:

Hello Folks,
I am trying to develop a webbased applicaiton for which I thought of
externalizing the error messages.

You should look at log4net:
http://logging.apache.org/log4net/release/features.html

Tim