How can I enable WCF logging so that it writes to a Database?

Question

I\'d like to be able to log message information in a database, and I\'m trying to decide how best to do that. Is it possible to configure the WCF logging mechanisms to write

Answer 1

You need to have two things:

• a proper config to enable .NET tracing
• a trace listener to capture the trace messages and store them in a database

For #1:
You need to turn on tracing in WCF first - you need an entry in that enables tracing:

Next, you need to configure .NET tracing as such:

Here, instead of the WebTraceListener, or other pre-defined listeners, you can also plug in your own database-oriented trace listener.

For #2:
You can - of course - write your own SqlTraceListener - or you can use one of the many ready-made solutions out there, for instance this one here (download the code from Codeplex).