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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.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Configuration.Provider;

namespace DanielVaughan.Logging
{
	/// <summary>
	/// The default log strategy provider.
	/// This should be sufficient in most cases.
	/// </summary>
	class LogStrategyProvider : ProviderBase, ILogStrategyProvider
	{
		ILogStrategy logStrategy;
		
		public ILogStrategy LogStrategy
		{
			get
			{
				return logStrategy;
			}
			internal set
			{
				logStrategy = value;
			}
		}

		public override void Initialize(string name, NameValueCollection config)
		{
			base.Initialize(name, config);

			string providerTypeName = config["LogStrategy"];
			if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(providerTypeName))
			{
				ThrowMissingPropertyException("LogStrategy");
			}

			config.Remove("LogStrategy");

			try
			{
				Type type = Type.GetType(providerTypeName);
				logStrategy = (ILogStrategy)Activator.CreateInstance(type);
			}
			catch (Exception ex)
			{
				throw new ConfigurationErrorsException("LogStrategy is missing or of wrong type.", ex);
			}
		}

		public void Initialize(string name, Type logStrategyType)
		{
			base.Initialize(name, new NameValueCollection());

			try
			{
				logStrategy = (ILogStrategy)Activator.CreateInstance(logStrategyType);
			}
			catch (Exception ex)
			{
				throw new ConfigurationErrorsException("Unable to instanciate type " + logStrategyType, ex);
			}
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Throws a missing property exception.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="propertyName">Name of the property.</param>
		static protected void ThrowMissingPropertyException(string propertyName)
		{
			string message = string.Format("Empty or missing property \"{0}\".", propertyName);
			throw new ProviderException(message);
		}
	}
}

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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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