Log4Net creating empty log files, not actually logging

Question

I've got an issue with my Log4Net usage in my application. This is my app.config file...

    <configuration>
  <log4net>
    <root>
      <level value="INFO"/>
      <appender-ref ref="FileAppender" />
    </root>
      <appender name="FileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender">
        <file value="mylogfile.txt" />
        <appendToFile value="true" />
        <lockingModel type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender+MinimalLock" />
        <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
          <conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %level %logger - %message%newline" />
        </layout>
        <filter type="log4net.Filter.LevelRangeFilter">
          <levelMin value="INFO" />
          <levelMax value="FATAL" />
        </filter>
      </appender>

  </log4net>


  <configSections>
    <section name="log4net"
             type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" 
         />
  rest of app.config under here...

This is at the top of my Program.cs

[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(Watch = true)]

I also have this at the top of my form partial class (is this a duplicate of the above?)

 private static readonly log4net.ILog log = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger
                (System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);

And this code is on the form load (which does nothing)

log.Info("Initializing...");
            log.Fatal("blah");

The logger creates a log file called "mylogfile.txt" but doesn't actually write anything into it.

I know I'm doing something wrong, but I can't spot what it is easily :( any help would be awesome.

Answer 1

I wound up figuring it out myself seconds later. The app.config was wrong (unsurprisingly, considering I wrote it).

Here is the working app.config startup.

<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="log4net"
             type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net"

             />
   <--- other section groups here, you will have these too --->
    </sectionGroup>
  </configSections>
  <log4net>
    <root>
      <level value="INFO"/>
      <appender-ref ref="FileAppender" />
    </root>
      <appender name="FileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender">
        <file value="mylogfile.txt" />
        <appendToFile value="true" />
        <lockingModel type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender+MinimalLock" />
        <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
          <conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %level %logger - %message%newline" />
        </layout>
        <filter type="log4net.Filter.LevelRangeFilter">
          <levelMin value="INFO" />
          <levelMax value="FATAL" />
        </filter>
      </appender>

  </log4net>

I canned the

[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(Watch = true)]

and replaced it with log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator.Configure(); (here it is, where it is called in the Main program startup in Program.cs).

    static void Main()
    {
        log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator.Configure();

        Application.EnableVisualStyles();
        Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
        Application.Run(new frmMOEBackup());
    }

And it works! Thanks to everyone who viewed my question :)