By golly, you got it!!!
By changing my layout to log4net.Layout.SimpleLayout, it started working!
The problem was with the layout format:
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"%date [%thread] %-5level %logger [%property{NDC}] - %message%newline"
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something in there caused the logger to fail. What is annoying is how
silently it failed, I wish there was an option to make log4net throw
verbose, easy-to-understand exceptions!
I got the layout string from various examples on the google. Go figure
someone posted code that fails...
Ron Grabowski wrote:
>
> The first thing I would is to make sure log4net itself is working. Your
> config file runs correctly when I add a ConsoleAppender:
>
> <?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" >
> <layout type="log4net.Layout.SimpleLayout" />
> </appender>
> <appender name="ConsoleAppender"
> type="log4net.Appender.ConsoleAppender" >
> <layout type="log4net.Layout.SimpleLayout" />
> </appender>
> <root>
> <level value="ALL" />
> <appender-ref ref="EventLogAppender" />
> <appender-ref ref="ConsoleAppender" />
> </root>
> </log4net>
> </configuration>
>
> I can also see the entries in the Event Log. Internal debugging:
>
> <appSettings>
> <add key="log4net.Internal.Debug" value="true" />
> </appSettings>
>
> didn't show any problems. Do you get an exceptions when internal debugging
> is turned on? From what I can tell it looks like there's something wrong
> with the machine its running on.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: talktopete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 4:34:20 PM
> Subject: Trying to set up an EXTREMELY SIMPLE event log feature... and
> failing terribly! Please help a newbie
>
>
> Hi and thanks in advance for the help.
> I'm tearing my hair out over here trying to get this to work: a siple
> logger
> that writes to the application section of the event log.
>
> This is using log4net 1.2.10.0
> Here is the app config:
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> <?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" >
> <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
> <conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %-5level %logger
> [%property{NDC}] - %message%newline" />
> </layout>
> </appender>
> <root>
> <level value="ALL" />
> <appender-ref ref="EventLogAppender" />
> </root>
> </log4net>
> </configuration>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> here is my code:
> log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator.Configure();
> logger = LogManager.GetLogger("EventLogAppender");
> logger.Error("test");
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> No errors, nothing happens! I notice that there are no appenders.
> nothing is written to the event log.
>
> I am tearing my hair out trying to figure out what is going on, can
> somebody
> help?
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