DailyTraceListener is a small and simple and highly customizable TraceListener for .NET that writes log files by day.
This package is written in .NET Standard 2.0 so it can be used by both .NET Framework 4.6.2 and .NET Core 2.0 upward.
You can check the Demo file here.
You can get the package from NuGet:
Install-Package DailyTraceListener
You can use it as any other TraceListener:
var traceListener = new DailyTraceListener("Logs");
Trace.Listeners.Add(traceListener);
In the above code, "Logs" parameter is the path to the folder where the log files are written. If the folder does not exist, the class will create it automatically.
Now you can use Trace:
Trace.TraceInformation("Hello");
Trace.TraceWarning("Some warning");
Trace.TraceError(new Exception("A complete \"error\" message with\r\nmultiple lines.").ToString());
By default implementation, DailyTraceListener write a format similar to CSV so you can always change the extension to .csv and read with Excel or any program of your choice.
Currently there are two options you can use in addition. Please note both options should be set up before using for consistency:
var traceListener = new DailyTraceListener("Logs")
.UseHeader()
.UseUtc();
This option will write a header to the log file when it write a new file. The header is simply a string, and by default implementation, it's a CSV header. You can override this behavior by overriding the WriteHeader method.
Use UTC time instead of local machine time.
The following methods are virtual meaning you can override them if you need: WriteHeader, FormatTime (used by default TraceEvent implementation of DailyTraceListener). In addition, TraceEvent, Write and WriteLine are already virtual by its base class TraceListener.