Dynamically change the log4net connection string

Question

I'm new to log4net and was given a task to Switch the way log4net gets the connectionstring.

The connectionstring may be different for different groups of people who visits the site. i.e. company A has users who use the site and has its own db and therefore has its own logging table which log4net uses.

We were currently using a connection string in a webconfig file.

I created this code but doesn't work

MyNamspace
{
     public class Log4NetAdoNetAppender :log4net.Appender.AdoNetAppender
     {
          public new string ConnectionString
          {
                get { return base.ConnectionString; }
                set
                {                
                    base.ConnectionString = Service.GetConnectionString();
                }
          }
     }
}

<appender name="ADONetAppender" type="MyNamspace.Log4NetAdoNetAppender">

Answer 1

I think you could:

• Configure log4net by code instead of by xml
• configure as many loggers and appenders as "connection strings"
• use the right logger to log based on the user

Hope it helps