What to write into log file?

Question

My question is simple: what to write into a log. Are there any conventions? What do I have to put in?

Since my app has to be released, I\'d like to have friendly log

Answer 1

timeStamp i.e. DateTime YYYY/MM/DD:HH:mm:ss:ms User Thread ID Function Name Message/Error Message/Success Message/Function Trace

Have this in XML format and you can then easily write a parser for it.

  
    
    
    
    
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