View debug/log information inside Eclipse with NTail
Implementing Debugging and Logging functionality in your application will help you a lot when tracing the details of an error - while developing and also after deployment. There are lot of libraries out there like log4j , which you can integrate with your app for easier log management. Log4j/log4net have the provision to either log the information to a file or send email . So, will it be helpful if you can directly see the logs in Eclipse that will get updated whenever the log file gets updated ? Using NTail, you can achieve this. The content of the log file will be shown in a window inside Eclipse which will automatically get updated. Steps: