Question

Does anyone know how to get Nlog’s nlogger snippet to work in Visual Studio 2012 like it did in 2010? I don’t see anything on their forum or on the internet when googing around. Seems like something that people who use Nlog would want back.

Answer 1

Haven’t worked out how to get the real snippet installed, so I manually created a snippet to perform the same function as the original did.

Create the file nlogger.snippet in the following folder:

My Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Code Snippets\Visual C#\My Code Snippets

The contents of the file should be as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CodeSnippets xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
    <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
        <Header>
            <Title>
                NLog Logger Snippet
            </Title>
            <Shortcut>nlogger</Shortcut>
        </Header>
        <Snippet>
            <Code Language="CSharp">
                <![CDATA[private static NLog.Logger logger = NLog.LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger();]]>
            </Code>
        </Snippet>
    </CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>

Hopefully this helps someone.