Hour 17: ASP.NET Core Add log4Net Support To NorthwindCafe

A lot of examples on logging in ASP.NET Core shows you how to add console logging to your ASP.NET Core application.  But it's pretty useless in a real world application.  What you really want is to write to a file or a database.  There's a package called Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Log4Net.AspNetCore that will make your application use log4Net.

Here are the steps to use log4Net:

1.  Right click on your NorthwindCafe.Web project and select "Manage NuGet Packages"

log4net : Install log4net on ASP.NET Part 1

log4net is the most commonly used ASP.NET logging package.  It is robust and flexible in it's features.  You can choose to log your errors on the database or in a log file or multiple log files.  However, it is not as straight forward to set up.  In this blog we will go through the steps to install log4net using NuGet Package Manager.

1.  Create an empty web project, and call it whatever you like, below is the settings that I have, then click "OK"