Version 2.4.2 is a maintenance release with a minor bug fix in the Default.aspx that in some special situations can crash.

Version 2.4.1 is a maintenance release with minor updates. It includes a face lift on the logger summary page, automatic scrolling and a bug fix.

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Version 2.4 is released, including Oracle provider, new logger summary page and more.

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I have released Beta 2 of version 2.4, this version can be tested/viewed on:

demo.l4ndash.com\development

Highlights:

• A new web page “Logger Summary” that shows log entries categorized by logger and log level. The “Logger Summary” page has the same filter and drill down functionality as found in the “old” dashboard page.
• Added from/to date time input fields in the filter panel, this makes it possible to filter on date/time interval. Useful when using the new “Logger Summary” page.
• Added from/to id input fields in the filter panel, this makes it possible to filter on an id interval.
• A first version of an OracleProvider to read log entries logged through the Log4Net AdoNetAppender to an Oracle database.
• The SqlServer provider has been extended with the possibility to customize the name of the standard columns (id, data, logger, level etc). This functionality is also implemented in the new Oracle provider.
• Several improvements in the TextFileProvider, the provider is more robust to changes to a folder containing log files, especially when adding and removing files from the folder, and if parts of log files is deleted.
• Bug fixes

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I am happy to finally release version 2.3 of Log4Net Dashboard.

Highlights:

A major visual upgrade of the product, including new css style sheets.
Added the possibility of sorting the rows in the “LogRows panels”, the sorting is activated by clicking the on the column header.
The TextFileProvider is rewritten
A new XML visualizer provides you with formatting and syntax coloring of xml blocks.
New filter options (not equal, not contains etc).
A new and rewritten Setup and configuration documentation.
Several Bug fixes

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This release contain several bug fixes and some minor improvements, it can be downloaded from the Beta pages.  

I am happy to finally release a new version of Log4Net Dashboard – version 2.3.

This version is a beta 2 version and is available to registered users in the beta area.

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Log4Net Dashboard version 2.2 is released. Highlights: Retrieve log events from several types of log storage, SqlServer, TextFile and Windows Event Log. Predefined filters, save filters for future use. Column Visualizers to render column values. New Css style sheet “VerdanaSlate” SDK, write your own log providers, and your own Visualizers. Bug fixes The new windows event log provider, can read any log from the Windows event log, and are not...

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Today I have released the Log4Net Dashboard SDK, the SDK will enable users of L4NDash to extend the dashboard, using the SDK L4NDash can be extended in two areas: You can write your own data providers, this will enable the L4NDash application to use log rows/log events from almost any kind of log storage and in any kind of format. You can write your own visualizers, visualizers is responsible for formatting/preparing a single column value before it is rendered on into a web page. For...

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Highlights:

• Retrieve log events from several types of log storage, SqlServer, TextFile and Windows Event Log.


• Predefined filters, save filters for future use.


• Column Visualizers to render column values.


• New Css style sheet “VerdanaSlate”


• Bug fixes

Both the new log readers (Textfile and Windows event log) and the Visualizers are based on a provider interface. The provider interface makes it possible for others to write there own providers that can be plugged in to L4Ndash.

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Today I released the official version of 2.1, a great thanks to all that participated in the Beta testing. The version can be downloaded from the Download section I have already started the work on the next version (2.2). Version 2.2 will include a Provider interface, making it possible for others to write log providers to enable Log4Net Dashboard to display and analyze loges from other sources than SQL Server. This will even make it possible to use L4NDash to view log stored by “non log4net ...

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A lot of people have asked for custom columns in L4NDash, and that’s the major improvement in version 2.1. The possibility to define custom columns, i.e, if you have additional columns in your log table you want to view in L4NDash. The columns can be displayed in the Log Row Table, as well as in the Log Row detail pane. The custom columns can also be made available for filtering in the filter pane. The use of custom columns is bye nature, different from case to case. I am therefore releasing ...

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It’s about a month since I had my first version of L4NDash running on 2.0 (http://www.l4ndash.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65&EntryID=10), and I feel pretty comfortable to drop an official version. I have focused on making a clean migration to .NET 2.0, i.e. I haven’t added any functionality, just made sure the application is running well on .NET 2.0. I will continue to support version 1.2 which is the current version for the .NET framework 1.1, however new functionality will only be relea...

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Finally Log4Net Dashboard is up and running on ASP.NET 2.0! I did come across a couple of problems. Delegates: I hade some delegates methods. In ASP.NET 1.0 I had the delegate definition in the same source file where I did the actually implementing of the method, which worked well inn ASP.NET 1.0. But when I compiled the project in 2.0 I got the error message: error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'ShowErrorMessageHandler' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or a...

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Finally I found out that Log4Net Dashboard can be released. I have also put together a web-site for the product. In FaktNet we have standardized on DotNetNuke as a portal framework, and DNN also become the natural choice for the www.l4ndash.com site   The Log4Net Dashboard is a web application which connects to a SQL server database, and gives me the possibility to view and analyze the log table from Log4Net. I am a strong believer in extensive logging, especially in web applications. I a...

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    The work on Log4Net Dashboard is progressing. I had a long sidestep into CSS. I wanted to make the user interface customizable through use of CSS. A lot of work to put all the pieces together, put I finally found out that I needed one style sheet witch is common and one style sheet the user could choose. I finally grasped the meaning of cascading – never actually given it much of a tough. In the user chosen style sheet I’d put all the colors and font stuff which defines the...

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    I have spent a lot of time getting FaktNet up and running, formalities and stuff. One of my definitive favorite open source projects has for a long time been Log4Net. I am a strong believer in heavy logging. And I think that Log4Net offers what I need, it is configurable (in runtime), it offers a great choice of appenders which makes it possible to send the logging evens wherever you like (may be except to may coffee machine). But the Log4Net framework is missing a viewer ap...

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