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Instrumenting a .NET C# application

 Let's now instrument our sample C# application:

1. First, navigate to the project folder, from where you'll open VS Code:

$ cd ~/fod/ch06/dotnet$ code .

2. Next, we need to add a NuGet package containing the logging library to the project:

$ dotnet add package Microsoft.Extensions.Logging

This should add the following line to your dotnet.csproj project file:

<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Logging" Version="2.2.0" />

3. Open the Program.cs class and notice that we call the CreateDefaultBuilder(args) method on line 21:

Configuring logging in ASP.NET Core 2.2

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