Logging best practices

I’d like to get stories on how people are handling tracing and logging in real applications. Here are some questions that might help to explain your answer. Frameworks What frameworks do you use? log4net System.Diagnostics.Trace System.Diagnostics.TraceSource Logging application block Other? If you use tracing, do you make use of Trace.Correlation.StartLogicalOperation? Do you write this code … Read more

How can I get my webapp’s base URL in ASP.NET MVC?

How can I quickly determine what the root URL is for my ASP.NET MVC application? I.e., if IIS is set to serve my application at http://example.com/foo/bar, then I’d like to be able to get that URL in a reliable way that doesn’t involve getting the current URL from the request and chopping it up in some fragile way that breaks if I re-route my action.