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It seems that Microsoft are really trying to shove DI down your throat with .NET Core, and I'm not sure why, but frankly my console app is small and simple and I just don't want to build a whole DI container just to do some simple logging. How can I do logging in .NET Core without using DI? Everything I've read assumed you're going to use .NET Core's built-in logging architecture which obviously requires DI, but there must be a way to just do it without DI using a static variable on the class?

If you want to do it yourself you will need to instantiate a LoggerFactory instance somewhere and configure what providers you want. Then you just need to call CreateLogger to create a instance or use new Logger<T>(ILoggerFactory) to create a logger.

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

static class MyLogger 

 public static ILoggerFactory LoggerFactory get;

 static MyLogger() 
 LoggerFactory = new LoggerFactory();
 LoggerFactory.AddConsole();
 


public MyClass 
 private readonly ILogger _logger = new Logger<MyClass>(MyLogger.LoggerFactory);

What I ended up doing was using NLog but rather than using their .NET Core DI extensions, I just included the main NLog NuGet package, manually creating my own NLog.config file, and followed the tutorial to GetCurrentClassLogger(), creating that as a static member of my class, then directly used that for logging. This is quite a simple setup and has no need for DI. NLog should probably document it better.