Logging

[muscha]

Hi,

Does Microsoft provide .Net with a logging framework? Or we have to build
one ourself?

thanks,

/m

 

[Nick Wienholt]

A comprehensive logging framework called the Enterprise Instrumentation
Framework (EIF) is available for MSDN Universal subscribers, and also comes
(I think) with Enterprise Editions of Visual Studio.

Nick Wienholt, MVP
Maximizing .NET Performance
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=217
Sydney Deep .NET User Group www.sdnug.org

 

[muscha]

A comprehensive logging framework called the Enterprise Instrumentation

Framework (EIF) is available for MSDN Universal subscribers, and also comes
(I think) with Enterprise Editions of Visual Studio.

Thanks,

Had a look, but I stumble upon log4net, the port of Log4J to .Net. Beauty, I
feel at home straight away Had a quick glance with EIF decided it's not
powerful enough to do what I wanted to do (and flexible enough).


/m

 

[Walter Leinert]

Hi,

we are using both logging frameworks in our projects:
log4j (business components in EJBs) and log4net + wrapper
classes (c# client). We implemented wrapper classes to
simplify the method enter/exit tracing by implementing
the IDisposable interface and using the "using" statement.

The log4j architecture has been improved over the years
and is powerful and flexible (thread safe, distributed
logging , ...); it's customizable and the configuration
of the logging is very flexible. Log4j is widely used and
a "standard" in the java wolrd.

I would use log4net for .NET projects, which is somewhat
easier to use (custom attributes) than log4j.

Regards, Walter