How do I make CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting less verbose?

Question

I\'m currently using CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting(\"setting\") to get settings for my application, but it\'s writing logs of everything it\'s checking to the console

Answer 1

Not really. If you look at the code of the underlying GetValue method you'll see this:

private static string GetValue(string providerName, string settingName, Func getValue)
{
  string str1 = getValue(settingName);
  string str2;
  if (str1 != null)
    str2 = string.Format((IFormatProvider) CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "PASS ({0})", new object[1]
    {
      (object) str1
    });
  else
    str2 = "FAIL";
  Trace.WriteLine(string.Format((IFormatProvider) CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "Getting \"{0}\" from {1}: {2}.", (object) settingName, (object) providerName, (object) str2));
  return str1;
}

The Trace.WriteLine is always called without taking into account Debug or Release. Now you can simply remove the Default listener which should suppress all messages:

Now if you look at the CloudConfigurationManager it doesn't do that much. If this is a problem for you you can cook up something yourself, starting with this:

        if (RoleEnvironment.IsAvailable)
            return RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue(setting);
        else
            return ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[setting];

Note: The CloudConfigurationManager does a lot more than this, like loading the assembly without assembly reference.