A Serilog sink that writes log events to the Visual Studio debug output window.

To use the sink, first install the NuGet package:

Install-Package Serilog.Sinks.Debug

Then enable the sink using WriteTo.Debug():

Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
    .WriteTo.Debug()
    .CreateLogger();
    
Log.Information("Hello, world!");

Log events will be printed to the debug output:

To use the sink with the Serilog.Settings.AppSettings package, first install that package if you haven't already done so:

Install-Package Serilog.Settings.AppSettings

Instead of configuring the logger in code, call ReadFrom.AppSettings():

var log = new LoggerConfiguration()
    .ReadFrom.AppSettings()
    .CreateLogger();

In your application's App.config or Web.config file, specify the console sink assembly under the <appSettings> node:

<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="serilog:using:Debug" value="Serilog.Sinks.Debug" />
    <add key="serilog:write-to:Debug" />

To use the console sink with Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration, for example with ASP.NET Core or .NET Core, use the Serilog.Settings.Configuration package. First install that package if you have not already done so:

Install-Package Serilog.Settings.Configuration

Instead of configuring the sink directly in code, call ReadFrom.Configuration():

var configuration = new ConfigurationBuilder()
    .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json")
    .Build();

var logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
    .ReadFrom.Configuration(configuration)
    .CreateLogger();

In your appsettings.json file, under the Serilog node, :

{
  "Serilog": {
    "WriteTo": ["Debug"]
  }
}

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