carl moonan | the dude abides

Log4net is a great logger for .net, sadly i can not understand the apache.org support docs. To make log4net work in dot net you can do the following:

Get log4net binaries from here e.g. log4net 1.2.10

Add reference to log4net.dll

Add this to your app.config document:

Sample app.config

Make sure you add this if its a standard .exe

XmlConfigurator.Configure();

Add this line to your class to get a logger object:

private static readonly ILog _log = LogManager.GetLogger(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly(), Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().GetType());

There are some other tricks to follow if you are loading a dll or being hosted by a process but have your own config doc. More to follow shortly.