Say you have C# trace messages all over an application. Something like:
Trace.TraceInformation("Service Started");
How do you automatically log this to an nLog target without having to add code like the following to all the classes that have trace messages?
using NLog;
private static Logger logger = LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger();
Is there a way to do this without including traces produced by the .NET Framework itself, which this article demonstrates how to do?
This works for cases where there isn't an explicit source
<system.diagnostics>
<trace autoflush="true" indentsize="4">
<listeners>
<add name="MyNLogTraceListener" type="NLog.NLogTraceListener, NLog" />
<remove name="Default" />
</listeners>
</trace>
</system.diagnostics>
You can use NLog's NLogTraceListener.
For completeness, here is the System.Diagnostics configuration (from the link above) to specify the NLogTraceListener:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<system.diagnostics>
<sources>
<source name="System.Net" switchValue="All">
<listeners>
<add name="nlog" />
</listeners>
</source>
<source name="System.Net.Sockets" switchValue="All">
<listeners>
<add name="nlog" />
</listeners>
</source>
</sources>
<sharedListeners>
<add name="nlog" type="NLog.NLogTraceListener, NLog" />
</sharedListeners>
</system.diagnostics>
</configuration>
You also need to configure NLog to tell it how to write the information once it moves from the System.Diagnostics.Trace to NLog:
<nlog>
<targets>
<target name="console" type="ColoredConsole" layout="${longdate} ${windows-identity} ${message}" />
</targets>
<rules>
<logger name="*" minlevel="Trace" writeTo="console" />
</rules>
</nlog>