Has Anyone Seen THIS Error Before?

[Sheila Martin]

Hi!   I’m brand new to using log4net, and am getting the following error when I try to run my test project:   log4net:ERROR DOMConfigurator: ConfigureFromXML called with null 'element' parameter   Needless to say, I am finding this quite frustrating, as I don’t know enough about log4net to really be able to debug properly.   The test project contains the following files:   using log4net; using log4net.Config;   public class LogTest2 {       private static readonly ILog logger = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(LogTest2));             static LogTest2()       {             DOMConfigurator.Configure();       }         static void Main(string[] args)       {             logger.Debug("Here is a debug log.");             logger.Info("... and an Info log.");             logger.Warn("... and a warning.");             logger.Error("... and an error.");             logger.Fatal("... and a fatal error.");                   } }   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration>       <configSections>             <section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />       </configSections>       <log4net>             <appender name="LogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender">                   <param name="File" value="LogTest2.txt" />                   <param name="AppendToFile" value="true" />                   <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">                         <param name="Header" value="[Header]\r\n" />                         <param name="Footer" value="[Footer]\r\n" />                         <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t] %-5p %c - %m%n" />                   </layout>             </appender>                         <appender name="ConsoleAppender" type="log4net.Appender.ConsoleAppender" >                   <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">                         <param name="Header" value="[Header]\r\n" />                         <param name="Footer" value="[Footer]\r\n" />                         <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t] %-5p %c - %m%n" />                   </layout>             </appender>               <root>                   <level value="INFO" />                   <appender-ref ref="LogFileAppender" />                   <appender-ref ref="ConsoleAppender" />             </root>       </log4net> </configuration>   The configuration file ‘lives’ in the main project directory.   I was really hoping that this would work, especially since I downloaded it from a tutorial site. I made no changes to the code – just created a new project and added the files.   Any help (or links to tutorials) would be greatly appreciated.   Thanks!!!