A Visual Studio Code extension for adding color highlighting to log files. It is based on standard conventions for log4net log files but hopefully it's general enough to be useful for other variations of log files as well.

The extension associates with .log files and applies coloring to the following elements in the file:

• Dates and times in ISO format, such as
  • 2015-12-09
  • 2015-12-09 09:29
  • 2015-12-09 09:29:02,258
• Log level, such as
  • DEBUG
  • INFO, INFORMATION
  • WARN, WARNING
  • ERROR, FAIL, FAILURE
• Numeric constants, such as
  • 1
  • 234
• Standard .Net constants
  • null
  • true
  • false
• String constants, enclosed in single or double quotes. Examples:
  • "lorem ipsum"
  • 'lorem ipsum'
• .Net exception type names, i.e. word ending with Exception, such as
  • ArgumentNullException
  • HttpException
• .Net exception stack traces, i.e. lines starting with whitespace characters, followed by at, for example:

   System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   	at MyClass.DoSomethingElse(string foo)
   	at MyClass.DoSomething()
  

• Url:s
  • http://www.meadow.se/wordpress/
• Namespaces (sequences of alpanumeric and dot characters). Useful to identity namespace qualified type names, for example.
  • MyApp.MyNameSpace.MyClass

• Added icon to Marketplace manifest.

• Added coloring of Url:s and namespaces.

• Changed the color of exception stack traces to be a little more discreet.

• A recent VS Code update caused exception call stacks to be uncolored for some reason. Changed so that they use the same color as the exception name.

• Fixed bug that dates were colored the same way as constants.

• Added coloring of string constants enclosed with single or double quotes.
• Added new constants null, true and false, colored the same way as numeric constants.