NHibernate 4.x Cookbook - Second Edition

Configuring NHibernate logging

NHibernate has a very extensible logging mechanism, and provides a log4net log provider out of the box. The log4net library is a highly customizable, open source logging framework. In this recipe, we'll show you a simple log4net configuration to log important NHibernate events to the Visual Studio debug output window.

Getting ready

Complete the earlier Configuring NHibernate with App.config or Web.config recipe.

How to do it...

1. Install log4net using NuGet Package Manager.
2. Open your application configuration file.
3. Inside the configSections element, declare a section for the log4net configuration:

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

4. After the hibernate configuration element, ...