How to Write Log File in C#

Submitted by janobe on Friday, November 2, 2018 - 21:31.

In this tutorial, I will teach you how to create a log file in c#.net. Writing a log is very important in every transaction that has been made. In this way you can track if the transaction has an error and how to determine where the error occurs. See the procedure below.

Creating Application

Step 1

Open Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and create a new windows form application in c#. log123

Step 2

Add a Button inside the form. log321

Step 3

Go to the code view and create a method for creating a log file.

public static void WriteLog(string logMessage)
        {
            string stringLogPath = @"C:\TransactionLogs\ActionLog-" + System.DateTime.Today.ToString("MM-dd-yyyy") + "." + "txt";
            FileInfo log_FileInfo = new FileInfo(stringLogPath);
            DirectoryInfo log_DirInfo = new DirectoryInfo(log_FileInfo.DirectoryName);
            if (!log_DirInfo.Exists) log_DirInfo.Create();
            using (FileStream file_Stream = new FileStream(stringLogPath, FileMode.Append))
            {
                using (StreamWriter log = new StreamWriter(file_Stream))
                {
                    log.WriteLine(logMessage);
                }
            }
        }

Step 4

Write this code for the button.

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            WriteLog("The button is clicked!");
        }

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