Trying to log to Windows Azure Diagnostics log from Enterprise Library 6.0

Question

I am trying to log exceptions to WADLogsTable on Windows Azure. "Rolling Flat File" listener works but when I add this listener it does not work:

<loggingConfiguration name ="" tracingEnabled="true" defaultCategory="General">
    <listeners>
      <add type="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Diagnostics.DiagnosticMonitorTraceListener, Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Diagnostics, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" name="WADX">
      </add>
    </listeners>
... more configuration details
</loggingConfiguration>

The exception I keep getting is:

Missing TraceListenerData type in configuration 'name="WADX"'

There are no inner exceptions.

Answer 1

It looks like you're missing the listenerDataType attribute. The following example works for us albeit using Enterprise Library 5.

  <add listenerDataType="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.Configuration.SystemDiagnosticsTraceListenerData, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging, Version=5.0.414.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
       type="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Diagnostics.DiagnosticMonitorTraceListener, Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Diagnostics, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
       name="LogListener" />