Comments on: Writing to a log file in C#

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:08:42 +0000

Just a test: "c:\\testDirectory\\logfile.txt"

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:05:24 +0000

Hmmm, there are supposed to be 2 backslashes between c: and testDirectory, and 2 between testDirectory and logfile.txt.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:03:11 +0000

For example, change "logfile.txt" to "c:\testDirectory\logfile.txt" in the original code. I believe if you don't use a full path then it defaults to the location of the executable. Thoughts anyone?

By: Johan

Johan — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:51:51 +0000

how do u change the location where the file is created?

By: A. Coder

A. Coder — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:09:49 +0000

Need to use this in a static context...
static string strLogText = "Default string to log"; static StreamWriter LogWriter;
public static void LogToFile(string message)
{
try
{
if (!File.Exists("LogFile.txt")) { LogWriter = new StreamWriter("LogFile.txt"); }
else { LogWriter = File.AppendText("LogFile.txt"); }
LogWriter.WriteLine(string.IsNullOrEmpty(message) ? strLogText : message);
LogWriter.Flush();
}
catch (Exception) { }
finally { if (LogWriter != null) { LogWriter.Close(); } }
}

By: tanvir

tanvir — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:47:02 +0000

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theGenius! — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:31:52 +0000

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olish — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:59:55 +0000

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Or Levy — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:31:28 +0000

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By: itauthor

itauthor — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:23:58 +0000

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By: obiora

obiora — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:37:29 +0000

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By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:49:57 +0000

Why don't you just use log4net from Apache?