The type or namespace name could not be found in AssemblyInfo.cs

Question

I got the compile error 'The type or namespace name 'log4net' could not be found in AssemblyInfo.cs'

What does this error mean and how do I start going about solving it?

This is the offending line in the AssemblyInfo.cs file

[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(ConfigFile = "Log4Net.config", Watch = true)]

I just download a new project and ran into this error on the compile. How does an entry like this even get added to this file?

Answer 1

Right click on your project in the solution explorer and click Add Reference

A window will pop up and you should be able to click on a browse tab.

navigate to wherever your log4net.dll file is, and select that as the reference.

If you don't have a log4net.dll, you can download log4net from This page