Is passive logging possible in .NET?

Question

I\'m frequently frustrated by the amount of logging I have to include in my code and it leads me to wonder if there\'s a better way of doing things.

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Answer 1

This is one of the textbook (not sure which textbook has AoP in it but you get the idea) examples of AoP - logging : where you want to stick something before and after a method.

You might want to explore the AoP route, PostSharp is one of the popular ones, along with Microsoft Unity (IoC too), Castle.

One simplistic example of AoP is you add your code before and after methods, instead of adding the method calls inside the actual methods. As you've tagged the question with C# you might want to just look into making an extension method to log it, which is already in this question.

I would take a practical approach: how much actual logging are you doing? Can you get away with just an extension method instead of razzle-dazzle'ing the person reading your code. The logging built into the .NET framework is decent already.