Question

DOes anyone have any good information with regards to when to log, I was thinking of logging an INFO type when i enter each c# method and recording another info when exiting..

Is this considered good or bad? Will i see a performance hit?

If i do record an INFO when i enter a method, the idea would be to record the method name, and all variable and values

Any idea how this can be done automatically without entering each value and name of method, i suppose i could use reflection but maybe i would see a slow down here?

If reflection would slow things down, maybe i could just use the “REFLECTION” bit when there program FAILS hence i can write the stacktrace, all vars, and values.

Any ideas or examples on this really appreciated

Thanks

Answer 1

You could use the AOP (Aspect oriented programming) style of logging for method-level logging.

There is a good framework called Log4PostSharp. It’s a plugin to PostSharp which writes to Log4Net

It basically boils down to decorating your method with an attribute like this:

[Log(LogLevel.Info, "Doing something")]
public void CountCharacters() {
   // do your logic here
}