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Customizing ASP.NET Core 5.0

You're reading from   Customizing ASP.NET Core 5.0 Turn the right screws in ASP.NET Core to get the most out of the framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801077866
Length 160 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jürgen Gutsch Jürgen Gutsch
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Customizing Logging 2. Chapter 2: Customizing App Configuration FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Customizing Dependency Injection 4. Chapter 4: Configuring and Customizing HTTPS with Kestrel 5. Chapter 5: Using IHostedService and BackgroundService 6. Chapter 6: Writing Custom Middleware 7. Chapter 7: Content Negotiation Using a Custom OutputFormatter 8. Chapter 8: Managing Inputs with Custom ModelBinders 9. Chapter 9: Creating a Custom ActionFilter 10. Chapter 10: Creating Custom TagHelpers 11. Chapter 11: Configuring WebHostBuilder 12. Chapter 12: Using Different Hosting Models 13. Chapter 13: Working with Endpoint Routing 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a custom logger

To demonstrate a custom logger, let's use a small simple logger I created that is able to colorize log entries with a specific log level in the console. This is called ColoredConsoleLogger and will be added and created using LoggerProvider, which we also need to write for ourselves. To specify the color and the log level to colorize, we need to add a configuration class.

In the next snippets, all three parts (Logger, LoggerProvider, and Configuration) are shown:

  1. Let's create the configuration class of our logger. We will call it ColoredConsoleLoggerConfiguration. This class contains three properties to define – LogLevel, EventId, and Color that can be set:
    public class ColoredConsoleLoggerConfiguration
    {
        public LogLevel LogLevel { get; set; } = 
          LogLevel.Warning;
        public int EventId { get; set; } = 0;
        public ConsoleColor Color...
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