logging exception in c#

Question

logging exception the code below allows to save the content of an exception in a text file. Here I\'m getting only the decription of the error.

Answer 1

Your solution is pretty good. I went through the same phase
and eventually needed to log more and more (it will come...):

• logging source location
• callstack before exception (could be in really different place)
• all internal exceptions in the same way
• process id / thread id
• time (or request ticks)
• for web - url, http headers, client ip, cookies, web session content
• some other critical variable values
• loaded assemblies in memory
• ...

Preferably in the way that I clicked on the file link where the error occurred,
or clicked on a link in the callstack, and Visual Studio opened up at the appropriate location.
(Of course, all you need to do is *.PDB files, where the paths from the IL code
to your released source in C # are stored.)

So I finally started using this solution:
It exists as a Nuget package - Desharp.
It's for both application types - web and desktop.
See it's Desharp Github documentation. It has many configuration options.

try {
    var myStrangeObj = new { /*... something really mysterious ...*/ };
    throw new Exception("Something really baaaaad with my strange object :-)");
} catch (Exception ex) {

    // store any rendered object in debug.html or debug.log file
    Desharp.Debug.Log(myStrangeObj, Desharp.Level.DEBUG);

    // store exception with all inner exceptions and everything else
    // you need to know later in exceptions.html or exceptions.log file
    Desharp.Debug.Log(ex);
}

It has HTML log formats, every exception in one line,
and from html page you can open in browser, you can click
on file link and go to Visual Studio - it's really addictive!
It's only necessary to install this Desharp editor opener.

See some demos here:

• Web Basic App
• Web MVC App
• Console App

Try to check out any of those repos and log something by the way above.
then you can see logged results into ~/Logs directory. Mostly anything is configurable.