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One of the pieces of developing custom components is logging information. No matter if it’s for diagnostic purposes or when an error occurs, logging allows you to track the health of your custom component. When developing custom components for SharePoint 2007 we hadn’t much choice. Although SharePoint 2007 shipped with the Unified Logging Service, we couldn’t use it. The SharePoint SDK was pretty clear about it: although some methods were publicly available, ULS was for internal use only and was not supposed to be used in custom code. Because of this, we couldn’t provide a similar logging experience to SharePoint and had to develop custom logging solutions. SharePoint 2010 changes this situation: using the new ULS is now supported and may be used for logging in custom code.