Silverlight Logging framework and/or best practices

Question

Now that Silverlight 2 has finally shipped. I\'m wondering if anyone has put together any logging frameworks for it, maybe something like enterprise library logging or log4n

Answer 1

if you just want to output debug messages to the console. You could use the Browser's console.log mechanism. I coded a extension method for that. You can find on my blog.

    // http://kodierer.blogspot.com.es/2009/05/silverlight-logging-extension-method.html
    public static string Log(string message)
    {
        var msgLog = "";
        try
        {

            HtmlWindow window = HtmlPage.Window;

            //only log if a console is available
            var isConsoleAvailable = (bool)window.Eval("typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) != 'undefined'");

            if (!isConsoleAvailable) return "isConsoleAvailable " + isConsoleAvailable;

            var createLogFunction = (bool)window.Eval("typeof(ssplog) == 'undefined'");
            if (createLogFunction)
            {
                // Load the logging function into global scope:
                string logFunction = @"function ssplog(msg) { console.log(msg); }";
                string code = string.Format(@"if(window.execScript) {{ window.execScript('{0}'); }} else {{ eval.call(null, '{0}'); }}", logFunction);
                window.Eval(code);
            }

            // Prepare the message
            DateTime dateTime = DateTime.Now;
            string output = string.Format("{0} - {1} - {2}", dateTime.ToString("u"), "DEBUG", message);

            // Invoke the logging function:
            var logger = window.Eval("ssplog") as ScriptObject;
            logger.InvokeSelf(output);
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            msgLog = "Error Log " + ex.Message;
        }
        return msgLog;

    }