Log4Net Tutorial in C# .net (How can I show log in a file?)

For logging service my choice is log4net from Apache Software Foundation. It is easy to use, open source and well documented. There are also so many logging services but they are not open source. So it is an easy and best solution for you.

Write Log in Console procedures are given below-

1. Download log4net from http://logging.apache.org/log4net/download.html

2. Open visual studio and create a new console application.

3. Add to the project a reference to the \bin\net\2.0\release\log4net.dll assembly in the log4net distribution.

4. write the main method like this

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using log4net;
using log4net.Config;

namespace LogPractice
{
  class Program
  {
    void Main(string[] args)
    {
     log4net.Config.BasicConfigurator.Configure();
     log4net.ILog log = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger(Program);
log.Debug("THis is sadi's world!");
     log.Info("How beautyful the console looks like");
     log.Warn("You are great you did this");
     log.Error("Who make you know is the best");
     log.Fatal("sadi the great");
     Console.ReadLine();  // Hold the output
     }
   }
 }

Using Log4net Write log in a file, Procedures are given below-

1. Download log4net from http://logging.apache.org/log4net/download.html

2. Open visual studio and create an application.

3. Add to the project a reference to the \bin\net\2.0\release\log4net.dll assembly in the log4net distribution.

4. Now put this web.config/app.config file in configuration tag.

 <configSections>
   <section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler,Log4net"/>
 </configSections>
 <log4net>
 <root>
  <level value="DEBUG" />
  <appender-ref ref="LogFileAppender" />
 </root>
 <appender name="LogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender" >
  <param name="File" value="C:\Try\logger\logger\bin\Debug\log.txt" />
  <param name="AppendToFile" value="true" />
  <rollingStyle value="Size" />
  <maxSizeRollBackups value="10" />
  <maximumFileSize value="10MB" />
  <staticLogFileName value="true" />
  <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
  <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%-5p%d{yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss} – %m%n" />
  </layout>
 </appender>
 </log4net>

this configuration creates a log file in C:\temp\log.txt.

5. To use log4net put this as a local class variable:   protected static readonly ILog log =
LogManager.GetLogger(Program);

6.    And do this to write messages in the log file.   log.Debug(“this text will be in log file”);

For Example:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using log4net;
using log4net.Config;

namespace <code>LogPractice</code>
{
 class Program
 {
 protected static readonly ILog log = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(Program));
 static void Main(string[] args)
 {

 log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator.Configure();
 //————————–
 log.Warn("sadi the great");
 }
 }
}

7. Compile and run the application, and you’ll see output to the console

N.B : if you run this code log will show in the c:/temp/log.txt file.