What I am doing is creating a Log class to allow me to write to different
type of objects (TextBoxes, Labels, Strings etc).  As another type comes up
I would just add it in.

In my example, I have one function (Write) that just adds a variable number
of strings to some object.  The first parameter will always be the object I
am writing to.

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Text;

namespace RepositoryServiceApp.BusinessLayer
{
   public class Log
   {

       public static void Write(params object[] names)
       {
           object destination = null;

           foreach (object name in names)
           {
               if (destination == null)
               {
                   destination = name;
               }
               else
               {
                   if (name is string)
                   {
                       if (destination is TextBox)
                       {
                           ((TextBox)destination).Text += (string)name;
                       }
                       if (destination is Label)
                       {
                           ((Label)destination).Text += (string)name;
                       }
                       if (destination is string)
                       {
                           destination += (string)name;
                       }
                   }
               }
           }
       }
       public static void Write(object messageOut,string text)
       {
       }
   }
}

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Then I could call it like so, where Status could be a TextBox or a string):

               Log.Write(Status, parameter.ParameterName,"
",parameter.SqlDbType.ToString(),"    ",stemp,Environment.NewLine);

This seems to work pretty well.

I could also set up set a variable at the top of the program:

       static object statusOutput = null;

Then later in my code I could set statusOutput to what ever I wanted:
Status(TextBox), stemp (string), etc and call it like so:

               Log.Write(statusOutput, stext1,"       ",stext2,"
",stemp,Environment.NewLine);

This would allow me to use the same code to write status information to a
Multiline TextBox or a strint, or something else by just changing the
statusOutput at the top of the program.

Thanks,

Tom