---
title: "Logging block: RTFM"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/10/logging-block-rtfm.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/10/logging-block-rtfm.html"
published: "2004-03-10T06:52:00"
updated: "2004-03-10T06:52:00"
tags: [".Net Original"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Reminder to self: RTFM! We tried installing the logging application block today, it took a while for me to figure out why it would not build. It kept throwing errors such as “Could not find namespace…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Logging block: RTFM

By Roy Osherove March 10, 2004 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 10, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Reminder to self: RTFM!

We tried installing the logging application block today, it took a while for me to figure out why it would not build.

It kept throwing errors such as “Could not find namespace Microsoft.web.services” and “Could not find SoapEnvelope class” and so on..

Stupid me. Had I read the manual I would have seen that WSE 2.0 is required. ugh. (And I even thought that this is some kind of error since there is no namespace “Microsoft.web.services” but there **is** a “System.Web.Services” so I tried renaming it to that namespace at first. ugh.)

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