Clog: Client Logging, Silverlight Edition

Introduction

So you've deployed your brand new Silverlight application to test. But wait, there's a problem! Your testers tell you that it breaks when they perform a particular action. They send you a multitude of screenshots, yet to no avail. Without more information, the issue appears irresolvable. With deadlines looming and no hope in sight, desperation sets in. You raise your fists in the air and exclaim, "If only I knew what was happening client side!".

Enter Clog.

OK, the previous hypothetical scenario is melodramatic, but it highlights the need for an integrated client side logging solution. Thus, I decided to create Clog. Clog is a log provider system that allows you to harness your existing logging system to log client side messages to your server. It is fully customizable, can serialize and log all Exception types, and allows filtering of messages both on the client and server sides using custom or inbuilt filters, which so far consists of an IP Address Range Filter and a Role Membership filter. In this release, Clog includes an extendible log provider system, a log4net log strategy, a Microsoft Enterprise Library log strategy, and a Silverlight log viewer. Clog now supports multiple simultaneous log strategies!

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