Serilog.Samples.Autofac

Logging with Autofac

Key aspects

• ASP.NET Core Web App
• Uses Autofac.Extensions.DependencyInjection for dependency injection.
• Uses Serilog.AspNetCore to get information about ASP.NET's internal operations written to the same Serilog sinks as your application events.

Setup

1. Create ASP.NET Core Web App:

   dotnet new webapp --name Serilog.Samples.Autofac

2. Add Serilog packages:

   dotnet add package Serilog.AspNetCore
   dotnet add package Autofac.Extensions.DependencyInjection

3. Configure web host to UseServiceProviderFactory (reference):

   .UseServiceProviderFactory(new AutofacServiceProviderFactory())

4. Configure web host to UseSerilog (reference):

   .UseSerilog((hostingContext, services, loggerConfiguration) => loggerConfiguration
       .Enrich.FromLogContext()
       .WriteTo.Console());

5. Call ConfigureContainer to configure Autofac (reference):

   public void ConfigureContainer(ContainerBuilder builder)
   {
       // Register your own things directly with Autofac here. Don't
       // call builder.Populate(), that happens in AutofacServiceProviderFactory
       // for you.
       builder.RegisterType<GreetingsService>().As<IGreetingsService>();
   }

6. Create some log output messages (reference).

7. Run the application:

   dotnet run