Question

I am having no luck getting NLog to work. Working through the tutorial, I have the exact code as seen there.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using NLog;

namespace NLog2
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var c = new MyClass();
            c.MyMethod1();
        }
    }

    public class MyClass
    {
        private static Logger logger = LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger();

        public void MyMethod1()
        {
            logger.Trace("Sample trace message");
            logger.Debug("Sample debug message");
            logger.Info("Sample informational message");
            logger.Warn("Sample warning message");
            logger.Error("Sample error message");
            logger.Fatal("Sample fatal error message");

            // alternatively you can call the Log() method 
            // and pass log level as the parameter.
            logger.Log(LogLevel.Info, "Sample fatal error message");
        }
    }
}

My config file (named NLog.config) looks like…

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

    <targets>
        <target name="logfile" xsi:type="File" fileName="file.txt" />
    </targets>

    <rules>
        <logger name="*" minlevel="Info" writeTo="logfile" />
    </rules>
</nlog>

I get no output. Can someone see what the issue is here?

Answer 1

Dumb mistake. I had not set the config file to copy to the output directory.