I've been using BDD 2007 a lot lately and I thought it would be nice to get live logging details from BDD rather than using the many .log files that are created. After searching around for possible solution I settled on using a combination of a C# application using HttpListener and a vbscript using MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP. The logging application is shown below.

To setup the remote logger is fairly simple and the files needed are included below. To use the remote logger do the following:

1. Download BDD Remote Logger.zip
2. Copy ZTIGather.xml and ZTIUtility.vbs into your Distribution$\Scripts directory. Do a file compare if you are interested in the changes. There is an addition properity added to ZTIGather.xml called RemoteLogURL and a few lines added to the Logging Class in ZTIUtility.vbs.
3. Add RemoteLogURL=http://yourmachine:8081/
4. Start BDDRemoteLogger.exe and ensure that the url prefix is the name of your machine. The URL Prefix in BDDRemoteLogger must match what you have in your RemoteLogURL value.
5. Click start on BDDRemoteLogger and Run BDD as normal.

If you run BDD with RemoteLogURL present and you BDDRemoteLogger is not listening for requests then it will considerably slow down the BDD logging (approximately 1sec per entry). So if RemoteLogURL is present in Bootstrap.ini then make sure you have the logger running. If RemoteLogURL is not present BDD will run as norma.

If you've got any questions or comments please comment to this post.