What other alternatives to log4net logging exist?

c# .net logging utilities
csharptest.net picture csharptest.net · Oct 11, 2009 · Viewed 13.3k times · Source

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I'm looking for what your using to perform logging in your application. This log4net thing is giving me headaches. Is there a better answer out there or is everone just homebrewing a solution? I know the System.Diagnostics.Trace subsystem is quite capable should I layer on this?

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Romain Verdier picture Romain Verdier · Oct 11, 2009

NLog is probably the other big player in this area. Also, There is an application bloc in entreprise library that is dedicated to tracing and logging.

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