log4net is a great logging framework for .NET, but it hasn’t been updated in years. When we moved to Windows Vista, we noticed that the UdpAppender stopped working with Chainsaw and with our internal logging tools when logging to localhost. After some Googling, we discovered that replacing localhost with 127.0.0.2 got everything working and we [...]

I have been contacted people who cannot attend my Toronto Code Camp session on log4net tomorrow requesting a copy of my presentation and example code. I cannot find it posted on the Code Camp site, so here is a copy for anyone who is interested. The presentation is in PowerPoint 2007 and the example code [...]

I found out last week that I will be speaking at this year’s Toronto Code Camp on March 1st.  I will be giving an Introduction to log4net from 9:00 AM to 10:15 AM. I will begin the session with an overview of the license, features and capabilities of log4net, including log levels, log hierarchies, logging [...]

In log4net speak, an appender is an output destination for a log such as a file, the console, a database or even email.  log4net ships with so many appenders that most of us will never need to write our own.  There are cases where you may find a need for your own appender, for example, [...]