For parsing log4j files there are some alternatives: Chainsaw (java gui). If the links dead, note that it should be part of log4j. Similar to chainsaw but in .net: logviewer. Log2Console looks pretty sweet. It has some positive comments. On the logviewer page you find a sample configuration for using "log4net.Layout.XmlLayoutSchemaLog4j". Note that the log4net xmllayout should be parse:able by logviewer as well. Both NLog and Log4Net can log to the log4j layout.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f7dy01k1(v=VS.80).aspxhttp://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/danielgrunwald/archive/2011/02/04/ilspy-a-new-net-assembly-inspector.aspxhttp://reflector.red-gate.com/download.aspx?TreatAsUpdate=1 maybe R# later on?

You might want to start off by reading the documentation from Microsoft. The short version of this text is that in the new CS2009 there is tracing and it is done through system.diagnostics. I don't know the entire story, but it looks like the exception handling is piped through the trace. So in order to configure the logging for commerce server you will need to read up on the system.diagnostics tracing.You will need to add a source "Microsoft.Commerce.Exceptions". There you can choose your TraceListener [...]

You might want to start off by reading the documentation from Microsoft. The short version of this text is that in the new CS2009 there is tracing and it is done through system.diagnostics. I don’t know the entire story, but it looks like the exception handling is piped through the trace. So in order to configure the logging for commerce server you will need to read up on the system.diagnostics tracing.You will need to add a source ”Microsoft.Commerce.Exceptions”. There you can choose your TraceListener a[...]

Say that you would want some microsoft plattform of the future. What would it be? Probably the Commerce Server databases in Sql Azure and an implementation of CS2009 API's by implementing the right operation sequences and dropping the old pipeline architecture. Someone has already gotten something related to this idea: http://blog.kellyheard.com/commerceservercloud/ I wonder how much time it would take for Microsoft to implement this? It doesn't look impossible, just some grunt work getting everything in [...]