How to: Open and Append to a Log File
.NET Framework 4.5
StreamWriter and StreamReader write characters to and read characters from streams. The following code example opens the log.txt file for input, or creates the file if it does not already exist, and appends information to the end of the file. The contents of the file are then written to standard output for display. As an alternative to this example, the information could be stored as a single string or string array, and the WriteAllText or WriteAllLines method could be used to achieve the same functionality.
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Visual Basic users may choose to use the methods and properties provided by the Log class or FileSystem class for creating or writing to log files. |
using System; using System.IO; class DirAppend { public static void Main() { using (StreamWriter w = File.AppendText("log.txt")) { Log("Test1", w); Log("Test2", w); } using (StreamReader r = File.OpenText("log.txt")) { DumpLog(r); } } public static void Log(string logMessage, TextWriter w) { w.Write("\r\nLog Entry : "); w.WriteLine("{0} {1}", DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString(), DateTime.Now.ToLongDateString()); w.WriteLine(" :"); w.WriteLine(" :{0}", logMessage); w.WriteLine ("-------------------------------"); } public static void DumpLog(StreamReader r) { string line; while ((line = r.ReadLine()) != null) { Console.WriteLine(line); } } }
