I'd like to write log to 2 different log files from the same process.
is that possible thing to do using log4net?
I'll need to write separate messages to each log file. how can I write a message to a specific appender?
These answers were helpful, but I wanted to share my answer with both the app.config part and the c# code part, so there is less guessing for the next person.
<log4net>
<appender name="SomeName" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
<file value="c:/Console.txt" />
<appendToFile value="true" />
<rollingStyle value="Composite" />
<datePattern value="yyyyMMdd" />
<maxSizeRollBackups value="10" />
<maximumFileSize value="1MB" />
</appender>
<appender name="Summary" type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender">
<file value="SummaryFile.log" />
<appendToFile value="true" />
</appender>
<root>
<level value="ALL" />
<appender-ref ref="SomeName" />
</root>
<logger additivity="false" name="Summary">
<level value="DEBUG"/>
<appender-ref ref="Summary" />
</logger>
</log4net>
Then in code:
ILog Log = LogManager.GetLogger("SomeName");
ILog SummaryLog = LogManager.GetLogger("Summary");
Log.DebugFormat("Processing");
SummaryLog.DebugFormat("Processing2"));
Here c:/Console.txt will contain "Processing" ... and \SummaryFile.log will contain "Processing2"