Simplest implementation of log4net

log4net is a powerful logging framework for dotnet. However most people go for there own implementation for logging framework to handle logs. I personally feel it's may be due to lack of simple implementation of log4net.

Simplest implementation of log4net

Step 1: Create a central logging class

public static class Logger

{

       private static log4net.ILog Log { get; set; }

       static Logger()

       {

              //log = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger(System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);

              Log = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(Logger));

       }

       public static void Error(object msg)

       {

              Log.Error(msg);

       }

       public static void Error(object msg, Exception ex)

       {

              Log.Error(msg, ex);

       }

       public static void Error(Exception ex)

       {

              Log.Error(ex.Message, ex);

       }

       public static void Info(object msg)

       {

              Log.Info(msg);

       }

}

Step 2: Update the a AssemblyInfo.cs file in the Properties folder

[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "log4net.config", Watch = true)]

Step 3: Create a config named log4net.config as specified in the step 2.

xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<configuration> 

       <configSections>

              <section name="log4net" 

type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler,

              log4net" />

       </configSections>

       <log4net>

              <appender name="EventLogAppender" 

type="log4net.Appender.EventLogAppender" >

                     <applicationName value="AppName" />

                     <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">

                           <conversionPattern 

value="%date [%thread] %-5level %logger [%property{NDC}] - %message%newline" />

                     </layout>

              </appender>

              <appender name="LogFileAppender" 

type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender" >

                     <param name="File" value="C:\Temp\Log\log.txt" />

                     <param name="AppendToFile" value="true" />

                     <rollingStyle value="Size" />

                     <maxSizeRollBackups value="2" />

                     <maximumFileSize value="10MB" />

                     <staticLogFileName value="true" />

                     <lockingModel type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender+MinimalLock" />

                     <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">

                           <param name="ConversionPattern" 

value="%-5p%d{yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss} – %m%n" />

                           <conversionPattern

value="%newline%newline%date [%thread] %newline%-5level %newline%logger [%property{NDC}] %newline>> %message%newline" />

                     </layout>

              </appender>

              <root>

                     <level value="ALL" />    

                     <appender-ref ref="LogFileAppender" />

                     <appender-ref ref="EventLogAppender" />

              </root>

       </log4net> 

</configuration>

In this config file have 2 appenders only. Refer Apache site for more config file samples

Step 4: DONE!!!!!

Step 5: Using it :)
Since all the logging methods exposed by Logger class are a static, we call simply call them to do the logging.

try

{

       return 5/0;

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

       Logger.Error(ex);

}

Happy coding!!!

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