Serilog in WPF project for VS 2019

Question

Hi All.
I'm developing WPF .Net project in VS 2019 not .Net Core. I would like logging exceptions in this project. I have some questions about it:

1. May I will add Serilog to that kind of application?
2. What Serilog I need select to install? In VS in NuGet Packager Manager I found a bunch of Serilog applications.
3. That is multi layers architecture project. In what layer Sirelog must to be installed? In Data or UI layer? Or any layer where will check exceptions?
4. How to setup, configure and use Serilog?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I will show the steps to write a Serilog demo which target .Net framework:
Step 1: Install the below three packages in your project Nuget: Serilog/Serilog.Sinks.Console/Serilog.Sinks.File
Step 2: Add a Button in the UI
Step 3: Add the code for the Button click event:

 private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)  
        {  
            Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()  
                    .MinimumLevel.Debug()  
                    .WriteTo.Console()  
                    .WriteTo.File("logs\\Log_SerilogDemoWPF.txt", rollingInterval: RollingInterval.Day)  
                    .CreateLogger();  
  
            Log.Information("Hello, This is my log!");  
  
            int a = 10, b = 0;  
            try  
            {  
                Log.Debug("Dividing {A} by {B}", a, b);  
                Console.WriteLine(a / b);  
            }  
            catch (Exception ex)  
            {  
                Log.Error(ex, "Something went wrong");  
            }  
  
            Log.CloseAndFlush();  
        }  

You need to install the packages where you want to write log.

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Answer 2

Why don't you keep it simple and use Log4Net?

You should be using Global Exception Handling in the presentation layer/WPF project that catches the exception from all layers and logs the exception.

You don't need a try/catch in any code in any layer, becuase the GEH will catch the exception thrown in any layer.

https://www.wpf-tutorial.com/wpf-application/handling-exceptions/

https://medium.com/nerd-stuff/logger-for-wpf-application-570eb9cbe546

You should log the exception message, the stack trace and inner exception message if it's available/not null.

I posted to wrong area the comments. But this is my answer post.