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Nish Nishant wrote:

That said, some of these logging frameworks kept adding features and now are unnecessarily complex, and may have reached a saturation point of over-engineering.

Kevin Marois wrote:

at the most basicl level, what's wrong with this:
 

public class Logger
{
    public static string LogFile { get; set; }
 
    static Logger()
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(LogFile))
        {
            var path = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location;
            LogFile = string.Format("{0}\MyLogFile.txt", path);
        }
    }

/// <summary>
/// Get the Application Guid
/// </summary>
public static Guid AppGuid
    {
    get
        {
        Assembly asm = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly();
        object[] attr = (asm.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(GuidAttribute), true));
        return new Guid((attr[0] as GuidAttribute).Value);
        }
    }
/// <summary>
/// Get the current assembly Guid.
/// <remarks>
/// Note that the Assembly Guid is not necessarily the same as the
/// Application Guid - if this code is in a DLL, the Assembly Guid
/// will be the Guid for the DLL, not the active EXE file.
/// </remarks>
/// </summary>
public static Guid AssemblyGuid
    {
    get
        {
        Assembly asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
        object[] attr = (asm.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(GuidAttribute), true));
        return new Guid((attr[0] as GuidAttribute).Value);
        }
    }
/// <summary>
/// Get all users data folder
/// </summary>
public static string AllUsersDataFolder
    {
    get
        {
        Guid appGuid = AppGuid;
        string folderBase = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData);
        string dir = string.Format(@"{0}\{1}\", folderBase, appGuid.ToString("B").ToUpper());
        return CheckDir(dir);
        }
    }

Kevin Marois wrote:

've never understood why This Much is needed just to write to a silly log file

Sander Rossel wrote:

since when is a log file easier for debugging than a friggin' debugger!?