Tag Archives: logging

Log levels explained

Posted on September 25, 2018 by erictummers

I’m always struggling with the method/level to use when logging from my application. In his Modern Structured Logging With Serilog and Seq pluralsight course Jason Roberts explains it this way: Level Explain Example Verbose how technical “calculated hash {hash} for … Continue reading →

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Common.Logging – generic developer logging

Posted on July 12, 2017 by erictummers

Image courtesy of Ales Krivec / unsplash.com https://www.nuget.org/packages/Common.Logging/ Common.logging provides an abstraction for the logging framework of choice. For IoC the common.logging offers an interface. NoOpLogger is a fake implementation used for unit testing. I prefer to use the nuget from log4net with … Continue reading →

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Setup logging in configuration with powershell

Posted on February 11, 2015 by erictummers

Manipulation of config files with notepad is a burden for every developer / operator. It is the source of many errors. With DEVOPS we try to automate this process. The result is less prone to errors. See the powershell script … Continue reading →

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Add tracelistener with powershell

Posted on January 28, 2015 by erictummers

In our deployment script we automate the installation and configuration of our product. For Development and Test environment we want to log everything to a file. The powershell script below takes care of adding TextWriterTraceListener to the trace listeners. The … Continue reading →

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Trace to Windows EventLog

Posted on September 27, 2011 by erictummers

In dotNET we use the System.Diagnostics.Trace and some TraceListerner implementation to log information, warnings and errors. My applications use the Windows Eventlog with the EventLogTraceListener. But what if your custom EventSource is not available and your user has no administrative … Continue reading →

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