I’m just taking my first steps with Azure and the first thing I see in the development fabric is a bunch of console style logging windows. So I figure that’s going to be handy and decide to figure out how to write stuff there and stumble upon this:
Microsoft.ServiceHosting.ServiceRuntime.RoleManager.WriteToLog("Information", "Message);
Cool, except I don’t see anything in the log. Saw a post somewhere that after first install you need to reboot before this will work, so I tried that but still nothing.
I’ve checked with a break point that the code is executing and I’ve checked the logging level in the dev fabric.
Is this supposed to work, or am I completely off base?
Just to add some more information about what I’m doing:
- Started with VS08’s new project wizard for Cloud Service
- In the wizard added a single ASP.NET Web Role project
- In the Page_Load method in Default.aspx.cs I added the WriteToLog line shown above
- Ran the project and in the dev fabric UI, drilled down the tree to web role instance “0”
- Nothing in the displayed log except some role instance start up messages followed by a bunch of health status messages.
- Tried reloading the page a few times, the breakpoint in Page_Load gets hit but nothing in the log.
- Logging Level is set to information, and the other events are level information so I don’t think it’s a logging level issue.
After some more googling, seems like this is a known issue:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=481184