Error logging in C#

Question

I am making my switch from coding in C++ to C#. I need to replace my C++ error logging/reporting macro system with something similar in C#.

In my C++ source I can w

Answer 1

The built in tracing in System.Diagnostics is fine in the .NET Framework and I use it on many applications. However, one of the primary reasons I still use log4net is that the built in .NET Framework tracing lacks many of the useful full featured appenders that log4net already supplies built in.

For instance there really isn't a good rolling file trace listener defined in the .NET Framework other than the one in a VB.NET dll which really is not all that full featured.

Depending on your development environment I would recommend using log4net unless 3rd party tools are not available, then I'd say use the System.Diagnostics tracing classes. If you really need a better appender/tracelistener you can always implement it yourself.

For instance many of our customers require that we do not use open source libraries when installed on their corporate machines, so in that case the .NET Framework tracing classes are a perfect fit.

Additionally - http://www.postsharp.org/ is an AOP library I'm looking into that may also assist in logging as demonstrated here on code project:http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/log4postsharp-intro.aspx.