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I've been working on a couple of projects lately and I want to add a much more robust logging system.  I've been playing around log4net made by Apache - more info at http://logging.apache.org/log4net/.  I'm wondering if anyone has used this or can recommend a similar logging framework?

Thanks,

Andrew
 

I am currently using log4net on a reasonably sized Windows Forms project. I had previously used (in my Java days) the precursor, log4j, so I didn't look beyond log4net when considering a logging system.

I found it very powerful to be able to put all the debugging in place permanently and then enable/disable as required when debugging specific sections. Also if a problem is found on a customer machine that we cannot replicate, we can increase the logging level on their machine in an attempt to debug the problem. This can prove invaluable.

I've often found it sufficient to simply write to OutputDebugString and when needed, capture this using DebugView from the useful Sysinternals guys - now part of Microsoft.

In certain cases, WinDbg provided me with enough info to get the problem sorted.

However, our current project is now using Log4Net.

Microsoft provides a Logging Application Block in its Enterprise Library... http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480464.aspx

I use something similar (but homegrown before this application block) for an enterprisey web application to monitor dev, QA and production environments.