Class ContextItems

Provides methods to maintain a key/value dictionary that is stored in the System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.CallContext.

public class ContextItems

Inherited Members: object.GetType()

object.MemberwiseClone()

object.ToString()

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

Remarks

A context item represents a key/value that needs to be logged with each message on the same CallContext.

Creates a new instance of a ContextItems class.

public ContextItems()

The name of the data slot in the System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.CallContext used by the application block.

public const string CallContextSlotName = "EntLibLoggerContextItems"

Empties the context items dictionary.

[SecurityCritical]
public void FlushContextItems()

Merges each key/value pair from the context items dictionary with the ExtendedProperties dictionary of the LogEntry.

public void ProcessContextItems(LogEntry log)

Adds a key/value pair to a dictionary in the System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.CallContext.
Each context item is recorded with every log entry.

[SecurityCritical]
public void SetContextItem(object key, object value)

key object: Hashtable key.
value object: Value of the context item. Byte arrays will be base64 encoded.

The following example demonstrates use of the AddContextItem method.

Logger.SetContextItem("SessionID", myComponent.SessionId);