Question

I have log4net loggers configured to run with my unit tests, but for a few select unit tests that serve as perf tests I want to disable logging. How can I disable (and later re-enable) logging at runtime, basically overriding the logger settings that are in my .config file?

Answer 1

on http://osdir.com/ml/windows.dotnet.log4net.user/2004-01/msg00010.html they recommend

To disable all logging set the
threshold level for the repository to
OFF:

LogManager.GetLoggerRepository().Threshold
= LogManager.GetLoggerRepository().LevelMap[“OFF”];

To enable logging set the threshold to
ALL (this is the default value):

LogManager.GetLoggerRepository().Threshold
= LogManager.GetLoggerRepository().LevelMap[“ALL”];