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In my program i’m using
logWriter = File.CreateText(logFileName);
to store logs.
Should I call logWriter.Close() and where? Should it be finalizer or something?
Yes you should close your file when you’re done with it. You can create a log class ( or use an existing one like log4net ) and implement IDisposable and inside the
Dispose-method you release the resources.You can wrap it with a
using-block, but I would rather have it in a seperate class. This way in the future you can handle more advance logging, for instance, what happens when your application runs on multiple threads and you try to write to the file at the same time?log4net can be configured to use a text-file or a database and it’s easy to change if the applications grows.