[wix-users] Session.Log replacement of []

[Nir Bar]

session.Log formats the message using MSI rules before dumping to the log file.

You can escape it like:

session.Log($"      ***** [\\[]{DateTime.Now}[\\]] {message}");





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Nir Bar

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---- On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 14:49:45 +0300 Benny Bürger_via_wix-users
_ <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote ----



Hi, 
 
I have a custom action that is calling session.Log 
Because I want to know the exact time, I wrote an extension method: 
 
 internal static void LogWithTime(this Session session, string message) => session.Log($"      ***** [{DateTime.Now}] {message}"); 
 
Funny enough, after more than two years of usage I really needed to know the time: 
The output of each log was: "    ******   messageText". 
The text [DateTime...] has been replaced with a space. 
Is there some specific behaviour, that [] is replaced with something? 
 
Best regards, 
Benny 
 
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