Comments on neil kilbride's blog: Configure log4net only once

Please do. :-)

2008-05-22T17:23:00.000+01:00

Please do. :-)

But I do like what you've done Bryan, I may even m...

2008-05-22T09:21:00.000+01:00

But I do like what you've done Bryan, I may even make a blog post referencing your post for reference if you don't mind?

Bryan,As far as I can tell your method works for l...

2008-05-22T09:20:00.000+01:00

Bryan,

As far as I can tell your method works for log4net if the config is in an expected location.

For the work this relates to, a master configuration file is used that is shared across numerous web apps, services, com+ components. So I think I still need to load up the configuration XML and .Configure log4net:
// Log4NetConfig is XmlElement with configuration details
if (!log4net.LogManager.GetRepository().Configured)
{
log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator.Configure(Log4NetConfig);
}

Hey Neil,Interesting that you're checking to see i...

2008-05-22T05:15:00.000+01:00

Hey Neil,

Interesting that you're checking to see if the repository has been configured already. However, if you're using configuration attributes, the call to XmlConfigurator.Configure() is completely unnecessary.

p.s. sorry about the add/remove comments, had to fix a typo.

until i figured out how to "Configure log4net only...

2008-04-09T21:37:00.000+01:00

until i figured out how to "Configure log4net only once" my life was empty. thats for enriching it neil :) XXX