RobLog

Summary

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http://transactions.sendowl.com/stores/7704/14219

This is a logging function that I use to rapidly troubleshoot issues when I don't have the ability to use some form a of a debugger. It writes to a log file at c:\temp\roblog.txt. It uses a mutex so errors aren't thrown in the event that multiple processes are running and writing to roblog.txt.

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public void RobLog(string message) { try { using (var mutex = new Mutex(false, "RobLogLock")) { var mutexAcquired = false; try { // acquire the mutex (or timeout after 60 seconds) will return false if it timed out mutexAcquired = mutex.WaitOne(60000); } catch (AbandonedMutexException) { // abandoned mutexes are still acquired, we just need to handle the exception and treat it as acquisition mutexAcquired = true; } // if it wasn't acquired, it timed out, so can handle that how ever we want if (!mutexAcquired) { throw new Exception("Unable to obtain a lock on the process to write to the roblog file"); } // otherwise, we've acquired the mutex and should do what we need to do, // then ensure that we always release the mutex try { using (TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(@"C:\temp\roblog.txt", true)) { // write a line of text to the file tw.WriteLine(message); } } finally { mutex.ReleaseMutex(); } } } catch { } }