Creating and saving log file in C# in ASP.NET MVC

First we want to create a path to which file will be saved. For security reasons we want to save the file in App_Data folder so it won’t be accessible outside the application.

var filename = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "App_Data\\" + "log\\" +  "logErrors.txt";

Now we want to write some errors on throw exception. By doing that we have overall idea what could have gone wrong when app went live. Being a good programmer means that we should never have any errors in our application, but if something goes terribly wrong at least we have some info what happened.

try

{

//Do something

}

catch(Exception e)

{

var sw = new System.IO.StreamWriter(filename, true);

sw.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString() + " " + e.Message + " " + e.InnerException );

sw.Close();

// Silently fail if the write doesn't happen.

}