Can anybody spot what I am doing wrong? I'm probably doing something stupid, but I've been banging my head against this for a few days and am getting no further:
I have a solution comprising two projects, a client app and a logger project. The logger project encapsulates calls to log4net. It has a line in its AssemblyInfo file [assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "Log4Net.config", Watch = true)] and static loggers and methods to call various loggers, eg private static readonly ILog bllDebugLog = LogManager.GetLogger("Matrix.Trace"); and so on. a Typical logging method in the logger code is public static void Trace(string message) { using (NDC.Push("TRACE")) { bllDebugLog.Debug(message); } } In the same solution I have an application which references the above assembly. The application makes calls to the static log methods, eg logger.Trace("a message"); and the log4net.config file is in the executable directory of the application (...\bin\debug and ...\bin\release). It all seems straight out of the book, but try as I might I cannot get log4net to log anything! The bare bones of the log4net.config file is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <log4net> <appender name="RollingFileAppenderROOT" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender"> <file value="c:\logs\MatrixROOT.log" /> <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout"> <conversionPattern value="%m%newline" /> </layout> <appendToFile value="true" /> <maximumFileSize value="100KB" /> <maxSizeRollBackups value="2" /> </appender> <appender name="RollingFileAppenderTRACE" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender"> <file value="c:\logs\MatrixTRACE.log" /> <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout"> <conversionPattern value="%m%newline" /> </layout> <appendToFile value="true" /> <maximumFileSize value="100KB" /> <maxSizeRollBackups value="2" /> </appender> <root> <appender-ref ref="RollingFileAppenderROOT" /> </root> <logger name="Matrix.Trace"> <!--this is for routine debug logging to a file--> <level value="DEBUG" /> <appender-ref ref="RollingFileAppenderTRACE" /> </logger> </log4net> </configuration> TIA Neil