write to IIS log from an ASP.NET application

Question

I want to have my ASP.NET application write lines to a log somewhere. Does IIS provide any built-in way to log ASP.NET log messages? I was thinking there might be a way to

Answer 1

What I usually do is to use a 3rd-party logging framework and configure the framework through configuration files (i.e. no need to recompile).

The frameworks I have used are:

• log4net - Which has a lot of so called "appenders" to write to different targets like Windows Event Log or a database or a log file.
• NLog - A logging framework that is a bit easier to use than log4net.

You have to insert the appropriate log function calls in your application to actually trigger a log entry being created.

Since your question title states that you want to write to the same log (file) as IIS does; I have no idea how to solve this requirement (left alone that I cannot imagine a reason why you would do this)