Hi,

Could anybody tell me where is the best starting point to integrate log4net into a winforms application ?  I intend to have a UPD appender configured and have my log information displayed in a textbox. Is a textbox the best control to go with? How do I attach my log output to the control I ultimately decide upon?

Thanks for any info/replies. Have a nice day

Graham

Graham,

If you check back in the archives for this list about a month, someone posted an appender that writes to a RichTextBox. I used it and it works well. It allows you to colourize your output which is nice for the different log levels.

If you can’t find it, let me know and I will repost.

Rob Prouse

Thanks dude, I think I got it…

Stephanie Giovannini <giovannini-s....@swbell.net>

Subject Rich text box appender

Date Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:12:24 GMT

That’ll be my reading on my way home the lousy sweaty French metro system J

G

Hi again,

That utility works a treat. Thanks a million Rob and Stephanie!

I have just two minor points (cosmetic).

1)       I have my log output in the rich text box (whose background colour is grey). My log output appears but its not in colour. I know its not essential, but it adds to user satisfaction to see errors in red. Any ideas why this is this case? Am I badly configured?

This is what my configuration section looks like;

  <appender name="MainFormRichTextAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RichTextBoxAppender">

    <file value="logs/RichTextAppenderRocks.log" />

    <appendToFile value="true" />

    <maximumFileSize value="25000KB" />

    <maxSizeRollBackups value="2" />

    <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">

      <conversionPattern value="%date [%-2thread] %-5level %-70logger - %message%newline" />

    </layout>

    <code lang="XML" escaped="true">

      <mapping>

        <level value="DEBUG" />

        <textColorName value="DarkGreen" />

      </mapping>

      <mapping>

        <level value="INFO" />

        <textColorName value="ControlText" />

      </mapping>

      <mapping>

        <level value="WARN" />

        <textColorName value="Blue" />

      </mapping>

      <mapping>

        <level value="ERROR" />

        <textColorName value="Red" />

        <bold value="true" />

        <pointSize value="10" />

      </mapping>

      <mapping>

        <level value="FATAL" />

        <textColorName value="Black" />

        <backColorName value="Red" />

        <bold value="true" />

        <pointSize value="12" />

        <fontFamilyName value="Lucida Console" />

      </mapping>

    </code>

    </appender>

Its ok I sorted it out. Dunno what

    <code lang="XML" escaped="true">

Does exactly but commented out everything works as expected

G

That is just a confusing artefact of Microsoft’s code commenting. That is part of the comment like /// <summary> that indicates a code example follows. It is not part of the configuration.

Rob

Im in awe of this stuff. Would have taken me weeks to get all this done with c++.