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Asked: 2026-05-10T22:30:54+00:00

A lot of programs log things into a text file in a format something

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A lot of programs log things into a text file in a format something like this:

11/19/2008 13:29:01 DEBUG Opening connection to localhost.

11/19/2008 13:29:01 DEBUG Sending login message for user ‘ADMIN’.

11/19/2008 13:29:03 DEBUG Received login response ‘OK’ for user ‘ADMIN’.

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However, I prefer something more structured like XML so I can parse the logs more easily. I’ve been doing this in my VB6 / Asp Classic programs for years and I want to do it in .Net now. Is there anything out there that will do this already or should I just re-write my VB6 code in C#?

Here is how a call to my logging component looks for my VB6 programs:

Trace.Warn 'MMain', 'Main(command, other data)', 'Deprecated command', _     sCommandName, sOtherData

resulting in the following log entry:

<Info time='11/17/2008 04:49:45 PM' mod='MMain' proc='Main' entry='Deprecated command' command='The_Bad_Command' other_data='The other data.' />

When I want to open the log with my custom log viewer, I simply wrap the whole file in a root node, and then I can easily do this using MSXML to filter the entries that I’m seeing, find a specific user’s login, etc. etc…

<Log> ...the log file text... </Log>
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  1. I’m not sure of any products that do that, but you could use log4net and write your own appender (output handler).

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