Available logging frameworks
Logging has been around forever. In the early days of computing, operators would walk around the machines and note whatever they saw happening to them. If a light blinked when it should not have blinked or vice versa, they wrote it down a journal somewhere. Later, systems would log everything they could onto paper and punch cards. If systems did something unexpected, the operators could go to the paper trail and figure out what had caused the event. After that, people used serial monitors that logged everything onto a separate device.
These days, we hardly use punch cards anymore. However, we still log. There are many frameworks out there that help you get the job done. In this chapter, I will explain three of those frameworks. They all have pros and cons. I will highlight these as much as possible. That way, you can make your own decisions about what to use and when to use it.
Default logger in .NET
Microsoft offers a default logger. We have seen...
