vb.net arcmap add-in log4net log still follow the configuration before update

Question

I met a strange thing in my log4net for vb.net arcmap add-in.

At first, I follow the link http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/42276/How-to-Use-Log-Net-with-VB-NET-A-Simple-Step-By-St to write logs for my arcmap add-in project. There are 2 files related to the log file:

(1) Log4NetAssembly1.exe.log4net, the configuration for log4net is:

<log4net>
<appender name="ExampleAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
  <file value="C:\Log4NetExamples\Example.log" />
  <appendToFile value="false" />
  <rollingStyle value="Size" />
  <maxSizeRollBackups value="3" />
  <maximumFileSize value="100KB" />
  <staticLogFileName value="true" />
  <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
    <conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %-5level - 
            [%logger] %message%newline" />
  </layout>
</appender>
<logger name="dev">
  <level value="ALL" />
  <appender-ref ref="ExampleAppender" />
</logger>

(2) app.config

<listeners>
    <add
        name="textWriterTraceListener"
        type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener"
        initializeData="C:\Log4NetExamples\Example.log" />
  </listeners>

It works properly with log file C:\Log4NetExamples\Example.log.

Now I want to create log file daily and want each log file with the date of creation, so I updated my code as follows:

(1) Log4NetAssembly1.exe.log4net

<log4net>
<appender name="RollingLogFileAppenderOutput" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
  <file value="C:\Log4NetExamples\" />     
  <appendToFile value="true" />
  <rollingStyle value="Date" />
  <datePattern value="yyyyMMdd'.log'" />
  <staticLogFileName value="true" />
  <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
    <conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %-5level - 
            [%logger] %message%newline" />
  </layout>
</appender>
<logger name="dev">
  <level value="ALL" />
  <appender-ref ref="RollingLogFileAppenderOutput" />
</logger>

(2) app.config

<listeners>
    <add
        name="textWriterTraceListener"
        type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener"
        initializeData="C:\Log4NetExamples" />
  </listeners>

The strange thing is after I changed to the daily logging design, my log file still written to C:\Log4NetExamples\Example.log, which means it still follow the previous configuration of log4net. I really cannot figure out why, is there anywhere remember the old configuration? I search the whole vb.net project and cannot find "Example.log" at all.

Anybody knows what happen? Please help me, thanks.

Answer 1

Thanks for the attention. I have found the reason. It is because of the setting in AssemblyInfo.vb like:

<Assembly: log4net.Config.XMLConfigurator(ConfigFile:="D:\workspace\dev_App\dev_App\Log4NetAssembly1.exe.log4net", Watch:=True)> 

Although the Log4NetAssembly1.exe.log4net name is correct, but for my case I create a new project and log4net related configuration is copied from the previous project. So the ConfigFile in AssemblyInfo.vb points to the old project path.