Singleton logger, static logger, factory logger… how to log?

Question

I am wrapping the patterns & practices Enterprise Library Logging Application Block for an application written in .NET.

I want to be able to subclass a logger (i.e t

Answer 1

Check out NLog. They use this sort of pattern:

private static Logger myDomainLogger = LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger();

You can then specialize the output based on the class that myDomainLogger belongs to.

More detail:

class MyDomain
{
    private static Logger _logger = LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger();

    private void SomeFunc()
    {
        _logger.Trace("this is a test");
    }
}

Then in your output you can have it output "MyDomain.SomeFunc" as part of the "this is a test" message.