Question

A co-worker had told me that he thought it was possible to store/access log4net’s config file in a database rather than a standard config file. If it’s possible, how would you go about doing this? Google search seems to be failing me.

Answer 1

You could store the configuration xml file in a database row and feed this as XmlElement to the XmlConfigurator.Configure(); method. This is pretty straight-forward and you do not loose any configuration features that log4net offers. Two things to consider:

• How do you want to deal with problems reading the config from the database? (fail over configuration in a file?)
• How would your application pick up configuration changes? Maybe it is good enough that this happens on re-start of the application but then again it may not.