How to verify my App.config file is being read?

[Steve Gross <St...@verificationsinc.com>]

Hi folks. I'm using TFS 2010, and am trying to get log4net working.
Here's what I've done:

1. Created an App.config file with contents like so:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="log4net"
type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />
  </configSections>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="config.type" value="unit.test"/>
  </appSettings>
  <log4net>
    <appender name="NUnitFileAppender"
type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender">
    ...
    </appender>
    <root>
      <level value="DEBUG" />
      <appender-ref ref="NUnitFileAppender" />
      <appender-ref ref="NUnitConsoleAppender" />
    </root>
  </log4net>  
</configuration>

2. Verified that the file I created is being loaded in like so:

  Assert.AreEqual("unit.test",
System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["config.type"]);

3. However, it looks like no appenders are actually loaded! When I run:

  IAppender[] appenders = LogManager.GetRepository().GetAppenders();
  System.Console.WriteLine("count of appenders: " + appenders.Count());

The system reports 0 appenders. Any ideas?

Thanks,
--Steve

Stephen Gross
QA Consultant
The New Guy

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Re: How to verify my App.config file is being read?

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On 2011-10-13, Steve Gross wrote:

> 1. Created an App.config file with contents like so:

> 2. Verified that the file I created is being loaded in like so:

> 3. However, it looks like no appenders are actually loaded! When I run:

This is to be expected.  The config section alone is not enough to
configure log4net, you still need to manually invoke Configure().

See the second paragraph in
<http://logging.apache.org/log4net/release/manual/configuration.html#dot-config>

Stefan