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log4net from ASP.Net

There have been some searches talking about how to configure log4net to work within your ASP.NET application.  I admit its not as straightforward as it should be.  There are 3 things to remember:

1. Whatever user your ASP.NET application runs as needs permissions to whatever resources you are trying to access.  For log files this includes create/modify perms in the directory you want to log to.
2. You need to add a log4net config section handler and config section to your web.config file:

<configSections>
<section name="log4net"
type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />
</configSections>
    <log4net>
        <appender name="RollingFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
            <param name="File" value="C:\\Projects\\TheShaft\\MobileServerEndpoint\\ShaftLog.txt" />
            <param name="AppendToFile" value="true" />
            <param name="RollingStyle" value="Date" />
            <param name="MaxSizeRollBackups" value="10" />
            <param name="StaticLogFileName" value="true" />
            <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
                <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t] %-5p %c [%x] - %m%n" />
            </layout>
        </appender>
        <root>
                <level value="DEBUG" />
                <appender-ref ref="RollingFileAppender" />
        </root>
    </log4net>

  3. In the Application_Start event of your Global, you need to tell log4net to configure itself:

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Compact Framework 2 on CE.Net

Right now, in Beta 2, you can run CF2 applications on WindowsMobile 2003, CE.NEt 4.0 and up, and WindowsMobile Smartphone.  If you start a SmartDevice CAB project, you will see the "MinVersion" parameter equal to 4.0.  However, I have been told directly from a Microsoft employee (via the newsgroups) that this will not be the case when Visual Studio 2005 goes final.  For the CE.NET OS, only version 5 will run Compact Framework 2 applications.