Call for logview4net user stories
Please let me know how you are using logview4net and what more you want it to do.
I know there are some who use it to monitor and consolidate Apache web logs.
One user told me he monitors the chat log of his MMORPG with logview4net running on a second monitor.
Another use is to watch for activity in an ftp archive.
How are you using it?
New release of logview4net (9.19)
Yesterday I made a new release of logview4net my multi channel log monitor.
I got a request for a TCP listener in addition to the UDP listener that was already there.
It actually wasn’t much work; First I copied the UDP listener, then I copied some code from the MSDN documentation.
I haven’t done any real testing though so if you want a stable TCP listener please try it out and give me some feedback.
The documentation isn’t updated yet, but the TCP listener is configured just as the UDP listener.
I just realized that the documentation doesn’t mention that you can use “ANY” as the remote IP address if you want anyone to be able to send data to your machine.
Reporting and/or data mining
When do you really need a reporting engine like Microsoft Reporting Services or one of the Data Dynamics offerings?
I’m working with a customer to rewrite an old application that is used to collect and publish a lot of data.
Some of the data is easy to pull from the database, but needs complicated layout. Other data is hard to get out of the database, filtering is ad hoc and it is published without formatting in an Excel spreadsheet.
There is also the unspecified requirement that the end users should be able to create their own reports and/or modify the shipping ones.
As far as I’ve experienced it is usually the creator of the application that ends up making modified or new reports anyway so I think a steep learning curve is OK. It is a good thing to have the reporting engine separate from the main application tough. That way you are not locked to the main applications release cycle. You also have the option to merge your application data with the customers existing data from other applications.
I guess I’ll vote against the reporting tool for the ad hoc Excel report.
