Question

I’m trying to send the output to the console (or colouredconsole) … which I’m hoping would (also?) go to the Visual Studio’s Output window for any ASP.NET web site/app/mvc app.

It doesn’t by default, but if I change the target to ‘file’ then it works for sure.

Can NLog output to the Output window for web apps?

Answer 1

You can use this configuration file (nlog.config in the app path):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd"       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">    <targets>         <target name="debugger" xsi:type="Debugger" layout="${logger}::${message}"/>   </targets>    <rules>     <logger name="*" minlevel="Trace" writeTo="debugger" />   </rules> </nlog> 

See also: https://github.com/NLog/NLog/wiki/Debugger-target

-Scott