Question

I have a C# console application. It is gathering info from several data sources and centralising them in another. Occasionally, it hits some bugs – connection strings stop working; schemas change etc.

At the moment, I am simply printing out debug information using Console.WriteLine(); – this is obviously an awful idea…not least because the application is a scheduled task running every night, so I never see this debug information anyway!

What should I do to allow for simple debugging when the program fails? What is my best practice in this case ?

Thanks very much.

Answer 1

You can use a logging library. log4net seems to be the most popular choice.