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In the past we always had often problems to manage logging mechanisms in unit tests, so I wrote ThrowAwayLogger that solves the problem.
1// field
2private ILogger _log = new ThrowAwayLogger();
3
4// call
5_log.Log(LogLevel.Information, _ex, "Test " + _message);
6}In principle, all this can be implemented via Moq , but there are often cases where validations are not necessary and a simple mock mechanism is sufficient.
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