Recently, the Log4Net team released log4net 1.2.11 (congrats by the way!). The previous version of log4Net was 1.2.10. Despite which version of version you subscribe to, we can all agree that only incrementing the third part of a version indicates that the new release is a minor update and one that hopefully has no breaking changes. Perhaps a bug fix release. This is especially true if you subscribe to Semantic Versioning (SemVer) as NuGet does. As I wrote previously, SemVer is a convention for versioning your public APIs that gives meaning to the version...
When Log4Net doesn’t work, it can be a very frustrating experience. Unlike your typical application library, log4net doesn’t throw exceptions when it fails. Well that is to be expected and makes a lot of sense since it is a logging library. I wouldn’t want my application to fail because it had trouble logging a message. Unfortunately, the downside of this is that problems with log4net aren’t immediately apparent. 99.9% of the time, when Log4Net doesn’t work, it is a configuration issue. Here are a couple of troubleshooting tips that have helped me out. Enable Internal Debugging This tip is straight from...