Hey,
I have an application that uses another assembly, written earlier, where a System.Diagnostics was used for debugging output. As the new application is supposed to use log4net for logging, I want to route that old Diagnostics stuff into log4net and I have successfully created my own derived TraceListener that does that for me.
Now, on my development system, I like to set up log4net to use a TraceAppender so that I can easily see the log4net output in Visual Studio when debugging. Of course, I can't use my own TraceListener and the log4net TraceAppender at the same time. So I'd like to find out (during initialization of my app) whether a TraceAppender is in the root category of the current log4net configuration and only set up my TraceListener if there's no TraceAppender.
I have had close looks around the SDK help file and I tried a lot myself, but I can't figure out where to get access to the appenders that are configured for the root category.
In theory, it seems to be possible to query the appenders for a specific logger, but then (1) I don't know which one to use at that early point of the application initialization and (2) using only the interfaces that I can usually get to, this would at least involve a lot of assumptions (and casts).
I've also written some code that uses GetCurrentLoggers and iterates over the loggers it gets and in the debugger it looked like the Appenders property deep down in the class that's returned for each logger doesn't even contain any appenders at this point.
So, to restate the question very simply: How can I find out programatically which appender types are configured for the root category?
Thanks!
Oliver Sturm -- omnibus ex nihilo ducendis sufficit unum MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 27142619
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