Formatting logging for SystemDiagnosticsTraceListenerData listener of Logging Application Block

I need to perform logging to console (or debug/trace). Currently I'm using Ent Lib 4.1 Logging Application Block. To log to console I use SystemDiagnosticsTraceListenerData and System.Diagnostics.ConsoleTraceListener.

It performs logging to console fine, but I'm not able to use formatter for this lister type and thus can't format log entries to desired format. What I need is just log message, without having all additional info tha is provided by default (which makes logs less readable for my case).

Is there any configuration option I'm missing to enable formatting for SystemDiagnosticsTraceListener开发者_如何学Go?

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One way to accomplish this is to create a custom TraceListener. Then in the app.config set the listnerDataType to CustomTraceListenerData. This allows the ConsoleTraceListener to have formatted output. The output was formatted as expected. Without the formatter, all of the values were returned. Both the custom TraceListener and the the app.config are attached.

The code is using 5.0.505.0 instead of 4.1 as posed by the original question.

This code was taken from this site: java2s firstbricks » FirstBricks » EntLib » Logging » Extensions » ConsoleTraceListener.cs (cache). Comments were removed to make code easier to read on StackOverflow, and the default color was changed from white to gray.

namespace Eab.Logging
{
    using System;
    using System.Diagnostics;
    using Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.Configuration;
    using Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging;
    using Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.Configuration;
    using Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.TraceListeners;

    [ConfigurationElementType(typeof(CustomTraceListenerData))]
    public class ConsoleTraceListener : CustomTraceListener
    {
        public override void TraceData(TraceEventCache eventCache, string source, TraceEventType eventType, int id, object data)
        {
            if (data is LogEntry && Formatter != null) {
                LogEntry le = (LogEntry)data;
                WriteLine(Formatter.Format(le), le.Severity);
            } else {
                WriteLine(data.ToString());
            }
        }

        public override void Write(string message)
        {
            Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Gray;
            Console.Write(message);
        }

        public override void WriteLine(string message)
        {
            Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Gray;
            Console.WriteLine(message);
        }

        public void WriteLine(string message, TraceEventType severity)
        {
            ConsoleColor color;
            switch (severity) {
                case TraceEventType.Critical:
                case TraceEventType.Error:
                    color = ConsoleColor.Red;
                    break;
                case TraceEventType.Warning:
                    color = ConsoleColor.Yellow;
                    break;
                case TraceEventType.Information:
                    color = ConsoleColor.Cyan;
                    break;
                case TraceEventType.Verbose:
                default:
                    color = ConsoleColor.Gray;
                    break;
            }

            Console.ForegroundColor = color;
            Console.WriteLine(message);
        }
    }
}

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    <loggingConfiguration name="" tracingEnabled="true" defaultCategory="General">
    <listeners>
                <!-- Namespace+class, applicationName -->      
      <add  
          type="Eab.Logging.ConsoleTraceListener, Eab.Logging" 
          listenerDataType="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.Configuration.CustomTraceListenerData, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging, Version=5.0.505.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
          formatter="Simple Formatter"
          name="Console Listener" />
    </listeners>
    <formatters>
      <add type="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.Formatters.TextFormatter, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging, Version=5.0.505.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
          template="{timestamp(local:[MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss.fff])} : ({title}) {message}"
          name="Simple Formatter" />
    </formatters>
    <categorySources>
      <add switchValue="All" name="General">
        <listeners>
          <add name="Console Listener" />
        </listeners>
      </add>
    </categorySources>
    <specialSources>
      <notProcessed switchValue="All" name="Unprocessed Category">
        <listeners>
          <add name="Console Listener" />
        </listeners>
      </notProcessed>
      <errors switchValue="All" name="Logging Errors &amp; Warnings">
        <listeners>
          <add name="Console Listener" />
        </listeners>
      </errors>
    </specialSources>
  </loggingConfiguration>

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I don't know if this helps (since you are using LAB), but Ukadc.Diagnostics is a set of System.Diagnostics extensions. One major addition (as compared to System.Diagnostics) is the addition of the ability to format the logging output, similar to what can be accomplished with Log4net, NLog, and LAB. You can even extend the formatting capability by writing your own "tokens". Tokens are objects called by the custom TraceListeners provided by Ukadc.Diagnostics to get the information to be logged (along with the log message itself). For example, I wrote an object to calculate the time delta in milliseconds since the start of the process. If I include the corresponding token in the format statement, each log message will include that delta.

See these links:

Ukadc.Diagnostics on codeplex

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