How to specify common application data folder for log4net?

Question

I want log4net to write log files (using RollingFileAppender) to a subfolder of the common application data folder (e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Company\Product\Logs).
However, on Win XP, there is no environment variable that specifies this folder. We have %ALLUSERSPROFILE%, we have %APPDATA%, but there is nothing like %ALLUSERSAPPDATA%.
Programatically, I could use Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData, but I need to put it in the log4net config, something like this:

<appender name="RollingFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">    <file value="%ALLUSERSAPPDATA%\Company\Product\Logs\error.log" /> </appender> 

OK, we could define this in our setup, but maybe someone comes up with a better idea?

Answer 1

We just use this:

<param name="File" value="${ALLUSERSPROFILE}/Company/Product/Logs/error.log"/> 

It works great.

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This line can simply be inserted into your current appender configuration:

<appender name="RollingFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">    <param name="File" value="${ALLUSERSPROFILE}/Company/Product/Logs/error.log"/> </appender> 

Answer 2

This posting on the log4net mailinglist explains how you can define your own path replacement variables.