Author: bodewig
Date: Tue Oct 4 15:52:44 2011
New Revision: 1178842
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1178842&view=rev
Log:
document log4net.Config and log4net.Config.Watch. LOG4NET-246
Modified:
logging/log4net/trunk/src/site/xdoc/release/manual/configuration.xml
Modified: logging/log4net/trunk/src/site/xdoc/release/manual/configuration.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/log4net/trunk/src/site/xdoc/release/manual/configuration.xml?rev=1178842&r1=1178841&r2=1178842&view=diff
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@@ -409,6 +409,48 @@ DEBUG [main] (Bar.cs:12) - Doing it agai
</p>
</section>
+ <section id="appSettings" name="appSettings">
+ <p>
+ If you use <a href="#attributes">attributes</a> to
+ configure log4net, two settings of the
+ <code>appSettings</code> section of your
+ application's configuration file can be used to
+ override the values given in your assembly's
+ attributes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The setting with the key "log4net.Config"
+ overrides the configuration file name (and is
+ considered to be relative to your application's
+ base directory), the setting with the key
+ "log4net.Config.Watch" determines whether the file
+ should be monitored for changes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Even though the assembly attribute
+ </p>
+ <div class="syntax"><pre class="code">
+<b>[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(Watch=false)]</b>
+ </pre></div>
+ <p>
+ would configure your application to use a
+ configuration file "TestApp.exe.config" and not
+ monitor it for changes you can override this to
+ use the file "log4net.config" and monitor it
+ instead by adding
+ </p>
+ <div class="syntax"><pre class="code"><![CDATA[
+<appSettings>
+ <add key="log4net.Config" value="log4net.config"/>
+ <add key="log4net.Config.Watch" value="True"/>
+</appSettings>]]>
+ </pre></div>
+
+ <p>
+ to your application's configuration file.
+ </p>
+ </section>
+
<section id="files" name="Configuration Files">
<p>
Typically the log4net configuration is specified using
a file. This file can
