Overview

MetroLog is a lightweight logging framework designed for Metro-style apps. Although the API is based on NLog and log4net, the intention is that it's a very basic logging system.

The need for it to be basic comes from the fact that Metro-style is intentionally limited for very specific applications. This project came out of the fact that porting NLog to Metro-style is difficult because of it's incredibly rich feature set, most of which is not workable in Metro-style.

Out-of-the-box, logging operations are intended to send all log levels to Debug.WriteLine, and Error and Fatal levels to a file in the app's LocalState folder.

Although Debug.WriteLine seems limited, don't forget that you can use [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx DbgView] to view global system error messages. This is very helpful when chasing down application boot problems.

Documentation

The intention is that MetroLog is mostly compatible with NLog. Both the surface area and internal construction should just about match.

One difference is that as well as using LogManager.GetLogger, you can add ILoggable to your class and extension methods will add logging support. For example:

public class TestLoggable : ILoggable
{
	public void DoMagic()
	{
		this.Info("In this case, Info is an extension method...");

		var buf = "like this";
		this.Warn("You can also use formatting, {0}", buf);
	}
}

Meta

This is an open source project that welcomes contributions/suggestions/bug reports from those who use it. If you have any ideas on how to improve the library, please contact [https://twitter.com/mbrit @mbrit].