Surprisingly the parameters collection isn't exposed publicly so you'd have to extend the built-in AdoNetAppender and expose them:
public class AdoNetAppender2 : AdoNetAppender { public AdoNetAppenderParameter[] GetParameters() { return m_parameters.Cast<AdoNetAppenderParameter>().ToArray(); } } Then you can ask the repository for all the AdoNetAppender2 appenders and inspect their values: var repository = LogManager.GetRepository(); foreach (var appender in repository.GetAppenders()) { var adoNetAppender = appender as AdoNetAppender2; if (adoNetAppender != null) { foreach (var parameter in adoNetAppender.GetParameters()) { // parameter.ParameterName; } } } ________________________________ From: Cankut Eskin <cankutes...@gmail.com> To: Log4NET User <log4net-user@logging.apache.org> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 1:13:13 PM Subject: Getting AdoNetAppender parameters using Log4Net API Hello, I've defined some extra parameters for AdoNetAppender in log4net config file. Everything works fine. Here is one of my extra parameters defined: <parameter> <parameterName value="@cachetid"/> <dbType value="String"/> <size value="36"/> <layout type="log4net.Layout.RawPropertyLayout"> <key value="CachetID"/> </layout> </parameter> I wonder if there is some way in Log4Net API to get information about the parameters defined for AdoNetAppender in the config file. Any help will be appreciated. Regards, Cankut