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Clog: Client Logging, Silverlight Edition

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A customizable log provider system that allows you to harness your existing logging system to log client side messages to your server. Includes a Silverlight interface and Log Viewer.
/*
<File>
	<Copyright>Copyright © 2007, Daniel Vaughan. All rights reserved.</Copyright>
	<License see="prj:///Documentation/License.txt"/>
	<Owner Name="Daniel Vaughan" Email="dbvaughan@gmail.com"/>
	<CreationDate>2007/11/19 20:00</CreationDate>
	<LastSubmissionDate>$Date: $</LastSubmissionDate>
	<Version>$Revision: $</Version>
</File>
*/

using System;
using System.Xml;

namespace DanielVaughan.Logging
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Base implementation for an <see cref="IFilter"/>.
	/// </summary>
	public abstract class FilterBase : IFilter
	{
		protected const string InvalidActionMessage = "Unknown Action. Must be Allow or Deny.";
		public string Name { get; protected set; }

		#region event Init

		event EventHandler<FilterInitEventArgs> init;

		/// <summary>
		/// Occurs when the filter is first initialised
		/// and the <see cref="FilterInitEventArgs"/> is available.
		/// </summary>
		protected event EventHandler<FilterInitEventArgs> Init
		{
			add
			{
				init += value;
			}
			remove
			{
				init -= value;
			}
		}

		void OnInit(FilterInitEventArgs e)
		{
			if (init != null)
			{
				init(this, e);
			}
		}

		#endregion

		FilterAction action = FilterAction.Default;
		protected FilterAction Action
		{
			get
			{
				return action;
			}
			set
			{
				action = value;
			}
		}

		public abstract bool IsValid(LogEntryOrigin origin, IClientInfo clientInfo);

		public void Load(XmlElement filterElement)
		{
			ArgumentValidator.AssertNotNull(filterElement, "filterElement");
			var nameAttribute = filterElement.GetAttribute("Name");
			if (nameAttribute == null)
			{
				throw new ClientLoggingException("Name attribute is missing."); /* TODO: Make localizable resource. */
			}
			Name = nameAttribute;

			var actionAttribute = filterElement.GetAttribute("Action");
			if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(actionAttribute))
			{
				try
				{
					Action = (FilterAction)Enum.Parse(typeof(FilterAction), actionAttribute);
				}
				catch (ArgumentException ex)
				{
					throw new ClientLoggingException("Action attribute is invalid for strategy: " + Name, ex); /* TODO: Make localizable resource. */
				}
			}

			OnInit(new FilterInitEventArgs(filterElement));
		}
	}

	public class FilterInitEventArgs : EventArgs
	{
		public XmlElement ConfigurationElement { get; private set; }

		public FilterInitEventArgs(XmlElement configurationElement)
		{
			ArgumentValidator.AssertNotNull(configurationElement, "configurationElement");
			ConfigurationElement = configurationElement;
		}
	}
}

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Daniel is a former senior engineer in Technology and Research at the Office of the CTO at Microsoft, working on next generation systems.

Previously Daniel was a nine-time Microsoft MVP and co-founder of Outcoder, a Swiss software and consulting company.

Daniel is the author of Windows Phone 8 Unleashed and Windows Phone 7.5 Unleashed, both published by SAMS.

Daniel is the developer behind several acclaimed mobile apps including Surfy Browser for Android and Windows Phone. Daniel is the creator of a number of popular open-source projects, most notably Codon.

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