Does the .Net TraceSource/TraceListener framework have something similar to log4net's Formatters?

Question

I've begun to the the built-in TraceSource and TraceListener classes and I would like to modify the output format of the events independently of the TraceSources and TraceListeners. It seems that the TraceListeners apply their own formatting. Is it possible to completely change the formatting without creating a new class for each and every TraceListener I use?

Answer 1

The Enterprise Library Logging Application Block (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc309506.aspx) is built on the .Net TraceSource and TraceListener classes (so you can pretty much just drop it into your project and it'll work), and it supports a message formatter that you can configure in the web.config (or app.config).