how to set RollingFile with App.config xml?

[CADbloke]

Greetings

Thank you for your things. :)

In the same vein as #22, I can't guess how I am meant to wrap the rolling file config in app.config to use this async writer. Here is what I have for the raw rolling file ...

<appSettings>
    <add key="serilog:minimum-level" value="Verbose" />
    <add key="serilog:enrich:with-property:Application" value="tvCADdesktop" />
    <add key="serilog:enrich:with-property:Version" value="Beta 0.2017.07" />
    <add key="serilog:using:RollingFile" value="Serilog.Sinks.RollingFile" />
    <add key="serilog:write-to:RollingFile.pathFormat" value="%APPDATA%\CADbloke\tvCADdesktop\Logs\tvCADdesktop-{Date}.log" />
    <add key="serilog:write-to:RollingFile.retainedFileCountLimit" value="20" />
    <add key="serilog:write-to:RollingFile.retainedFileCountLimit" value="20" />
    <add key="ClientSettingsProvider.ServiceUri" value="" />
  </appSettings>

cheers
Ewen

[nblumhardt]

Hi Ewen 👍 :-)

Unfortunately, the <appSettings> provider doesn't have a syntax to support the async wrapper, yet. There's a bit of work going on around this at the moment, so hopefully not the case for too long. As things stand, you need to revert back to using C# to configure the logger, and load any needed values from ConfigurationManager.AppSettings by hand.

Hope this helps,
Nick

[CADbloke]

Thanks Nick. I'll move the config into code. It won't make much difference to me at this stage.