How to use Serilog with Windows Client (net6.0-windows) application

Question

I'm trying to use Serilog and Ninjet on a C# Windows client (forms) application using .Net 6.0

Can anyone tell me how I configure Ninject so that ILogger is injected here:

public partial class TestingForm : Form
{

private readonly ILogger<TestingForm> _logger;

TestingForm(ILogger<TestingForm> logger)
{ 
 _logger = logger;
}
//etc.

}

I was rather hoping to use something like the .UseSeriLog() used here:

public static IHostBuilder CreateHostBuilder(string[] args) =>
    Host.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
        .UseSerilog()
        .ConfigureWebHostDefaults(webBuilder =>
        {
            webBuilder.UseStartup<Startup>();
        });

from https://www.ezzylearning.net/tutorial/logging-in-asp-net-core-5-using-serilog but I just can't work out how to do it with Ninject

Does Ninject support .NET 6? It doesn't look like it supported. .NET has its own dependency injection system. See here how to use DI with winforms: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70475830/how-to-use-dependency-injection-in-winforms — thewallrus, Nov 09 '22 at 16:01
Yes Ninject does support .NET 6. I have it configured and injecting successfully I just can't work out how to get Ninject to do what it needs to do to allow the code example above to work. I believe https://github.com/serilog/serilog-extensions-logging may help but the examples of how to configure it use the 'built-in' .NET dependency injection. — spud, Nov 10 '22 at 14:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 11 '22 at 15:23

I created a Windows forms app targeting .NET 6. I installed Serilog and Ninject through Nuget.

MyModule.cs:

using Ninject.Modules;
using Serilog;

namespace WinFormsApp1;

public class MyModule : NinjectModule
{
    public override void Load()
    {
        Bind<ILogger>().To<SeriLogging>();
    }
}

Programs.cs:

internal static class Program
{
    [STAThread]
    static void Main()
    {
        ApplicationConfiguration.Initialize();
        var kernel = new StandardKernel(new MyModule());
        var form = kernel.Get<Form1>();
        Application.Run(form);
    }
}

Serilog.cs

public class SeriLogging : ILogger
{
    public void Write(LogEvent logEvent)
    {
        //Implement Serilog here
    }
}

Serilog's ILogger is non-generic so just use ILogger. If you want ILogger of type TestingForm then you probably need to install Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.

using Serilog;

namespace WinFormsApp1;

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    private readonly ILogger _logger;

    public Form1(ILogger logger)
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        _logger = logger;
    }

    private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        _logger.Error("aaaah");
    }
}

How to use Serilog with Windows Client (net6.0-windows) application

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