Let your code record its activities ...

Let your code record its activities ...

1. Writing a diary is a good practice
2. Blogging is a great hobby

These serve to enhance your memory and recall about incidents and events at a later point of time. Let us extend this habit to your code too. Your program should normally get cultivated with a practice of recording (logging) its activities lucidly without swamping the resources.

That way, we get to reap a lot of benefits. A few are:

1. Troubleshooting problems with the application
2. Statistics about the application

There are excellent log frameworks available for any one to get started with minimum effort. A few are:

1. Log4Net
2. Enterprise Library Logging Application Block from Microsoft