Question

I’m using Enterprise Library 3.1 and want to programmatically access the Logging Block (runtime, object model) specifically its Trace Listeners and Sources.

For example, I want to access the Filename property of a trace listener object so I can know where the log file is located on disk.

Update: Looking for answers that use the runtime object model, not by parsing the XML configuration.

Answer 1

You can access the logging configuration programmatically using the object model (used for configuration).

To get the specific data for the trace listener you should look at TraceListenerData (and the specific subclasses).

This example shows how to read in the configuration and then get the TraceListeners:

// Open config file
ExeConfigurationFileMap fileMap = new ExeConfigurationFileMap();
fileMap.ExeConfigFilename = @"MyApp.exe.config";

Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(fileMap, ConfigurationUserLevel.None);

// Get EL log settings
LoggingSettings log = config.GetSection("loggingConfiguration") as LoggingSettings;

// Get TraceListener info
foreach(TraceListenerData listener in log.TraceListeners)
{
    // Check for listener types you care about
    if (listener is RollingFlatFileTraceListenerData)
    {
        RollingFlatFileTraceListenerData data = listener as RollingFlatFileTraceListenerData;
        Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Found RollingFlatFileLIstener with Name={0}, FileName={1}, Header={2}, Footer={3}, RollSizeKB={4}, TimeStampPattern={5},RollFileExistsBehavior={6}, RollInterval={7}, TraceOutputOptions={8}, Formatter={9}, Filter={10}",
            data.Name, data.FileName, data.Header, data.Footer, data.RollSizeKB, 
            data.TimeStampPattern, data.RollFileExistsBehavior, data.RollInterval,
            data.TraceOutputOptions, data.Formatter, data.Filter);
    }
    else // other trace listener types e.g. FlatFileTraceListenerData 
    {
    }
}