Tag Archives: SLAB

OUT-OF-PROCESS Semantic Logging V2 with Elasticsearch

This article shows how to use Microsoft patterns & practices OUT-OF-PROCESS Semantic Logging Version 2 with an Elasticsearch sink. Version 2 has breaking changes compared to version 1.1 for the Elasticsearch sink; this has been removed from the standard SLAB NuGet package… Due to this, a custom sink configuration is required and also some copy […]

Web API Tracing with SLAB and Elasticsearch

The article demonstrates how to use Web API Tracing, and trace the data using SLAB, in-process or out-of-process to a flat file or an Elasticsearch sink. Semantic.Logging from Enterprise Library now includes an Elasticsearch sink. The NuGet package also includes an implementation of the IExceptionLogger interface and a logging ActionFilter which logs the data using […]

Using Web API with a Nest elasticsearch backend

This article demonstrates how to create a Web API RESTful service and use Elasticsearch as the persistence infrastructure. Nest is used to access Elasticsearch store. Simple CRUD is supported in the controller. code: https://github.com/damienbod/WebAPIRestWithNest Update 2014.09.28: updated all NuGet packages and fixed NEST, breaking changes in version 1 Structure The Application structure is based on […]

Semantic Logging with Elasticsearch

UPDATE: This NuGet package will no longer be supported as SLAB now supports an Elasticsearch sink. This blog still demonstates how to create a custom sink for SLAB. With the version 1.1 bulk inserts can also be used for custom sinks. See https://damienbod.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/semanic-logging-with-elasticsearch-using-semanticlogging-elasticsearch-nuget-package/ This post demonstrates how to create a Semantic.Logging Sink which adds documents […]

Creating an MVC5 App with Unity, SLAB and Attribute Routing

This posts explains how to set up an MVC5 application using Unity 3 and Semantic Logging (SLAB). Attribute Routing is used for the controllers. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/MVC5UnitySlab Adding Unity 3 to the MVC5 project Add the NuGet packages to the MVC5 project. Now add the start up logic in the UnityConfig file in the App_Start folder. […]

SignalR Messaging a complete client with a Console Application

This post continues on from: SignalR Messaging, a more complete server with a Console Application Now the client will be developed with some error handling and proper logging. This example is a robust client, which can restart or handle any client, server events. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/SignalRMessagingErrorHandling.git A base Hub client class is created, so that each […]

SignalR Messaging A more complete server with a Console Application

This post continues on from: SignalR Messaging with console server and client, web client, WPF client Now the server will be developed with some error handling, proper logging, an IoC and an Client assembly with an interface and DTOs. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/SignalRMessagingErrorHandling.git To make it easier to use in a .NET client project, we can create […]

Slab Logging with an IoC Container

Slab Logging or Semantic Logging is part of the Microsoft Enterprise Library 6. In this post, a wrapper framework will be used to log and use EventSource classes. The EventSource can then be used with an IoC container without requiring static constructors. We don’t want to create a wrapper class for each EventSource. Static methods […]

Self Host WebApi with Owin and Unity

Using Unity together with a WebApi application and OWIN Hosting is a little bit more complicated compared to the standard WebApi and Unity. This blog shows how to host ASP.NET Web API in a console application, using OWIN to self-host the Web API framework and Unity as an IoC. The following steps need to be […]

AOP with ASP.NET Web Api

This blog demonstrates the usage of filters and unity interface interception with an ASP.NET Web Api application. AOP = Aspect oriented programming. This programming paradigm can be used to add functionality to existing methods. In the following example, we wrap the controller method with diagnosis using filters and then we wrap the business manager with […]