Logging to an individual log file for each individual thread

Question

I have a service application that on startup reads an XML file and starts a thread for each entry in the XML file. Each thread creates an instance of a worker class which re

Answer 1

@Adam's solution helped me. For posterity here's simple code that creates 5 Tasks (using threads from the threadpool), where in each task each thread writes to a separate log file (and then sleeps for 1 second), five times.

.NET Framework 4.7.2
.NET Console Application

AssemblyInfo.cs

using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

// General Information about an assembly is controlled through the following
// set of attributes. Change these attribute values to modify the information
// associated with an assembly.
[assembly: AssemblyTitle("LogfilePerThread")]
[assembly: AssemblyDescription("")]
[assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCompany("Microsoft")]
[assembly: AssemblyProduct("LogfilePerThread")]
[assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright © Microsoft 2020")]
[assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCulture("")]

// Setting ComVisible to false makes the types in this assembly not visible
// to COM components.  If you need to access a type in this assembly from
// COM, set the ComVisible attribute to true on that type.
[assembly: ComVisible(false)]

// The following GUID is for the ID of the typelib if this project is exposed to COM
[assembly: Guid("d3ec8b29-e701-424e-80d4-473e9fbb5572")]

// Version information for an assembly consists of the following four values:
//
//      Major Version
//      Minor Version
//      Build Number
//      Revision
//
// You can specify all the values or you can default the Build and Revision Numbers
// by using the '*' as shown below:
// [assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]
[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.0")]
[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("1.0.0.0")]

Program.cs

using System;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using log4net;
using log4net.Repository;

namespace LogfilePerThread
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            int nWorkers = 5; // 5 workers, 5 log files
            Task[] Workers = new Task[nWorkers];
            for (int i = 0; i < nWorkers; i++)
            {
                int i1 = i;
                Workers[i] = new Task(() => Work(i1));
                Workers[i].Start();
            }

            Task.WaitAll(Workers);
            Console.WriteLine("Main executed.");
        }

        public static void Work(int workerID)
        {
            // Make sure the directory where logfiles are written exists
            string logfileName = $"Worker{workerID}_TaskLog"; // Logfile extension & path specified in App.config
            ILoggerRepository repository = LogManager.CreateRepository($"{logfileName}Repository");
            ThreadContext.Properties["WorkerLoggerProperty"] = logfileName;
            log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator.Configure(repository);
            ILog log = LogManager.GetLogger($"{logfileName}Repository", "WorkerLogger"); // Use this logger object in thread

            // Do work: Log & Sleep
            for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
            {
                log.Info($"Logging from WorkerID={workerID} - Msg {i}");
                Thread.Sleep(1000);
            }
        }
    }
}

App.config

C:\logs\Worker0_TaskLog.log

2020-01-14 21:59:46,696 [ INFO, 3] Logging from WorkerID=0 - Msg 0
2020-01-14 21:59:47,714 [ INFO, 3] Logging from WorkerID=0 - Msg 1
2020-01-14 21:59:48,714 [ INFO, 3] Logging from WorkerID=0 - Msg 2
2020-01-14 21:59:49,714 [ INFO, 3] Logging from WorkerID=0 - Msg 3
2020-01-14 21:59:50,714 [ INFO, 3] Logging from WorkerID=0 - Msg 4

C:\logs\Worker1_TaskLog.log

2020-01-14 21:59:46,696 [ INFO, 4] Logging from WorkerID=1 - Msg 0
2020-01-14 21:59:47,714 [ INFO, 4] Logging from WorkerID=1 - Msg 1
2020-01-14 21:59:48,714 [ INFO, 4] Logging from WorkerID=1 - Msg 2
2020-01-14 21:59:49,714 [ INFO, 4] Logging from WorkerID=1 - Msg 3
2020-01-14 21:59:50,714 [ INFO, 4] Logging from WorkerID=1 - Msg 4

C:\logs\Worker2_TaskLog.log

2020-01-14 21:59:46,697 [ INFO, 5] Logging from WorkerID=2 - Msg 0
2020-01-14 21:59:47,713 [ INFO, 5] Logging from WorkerID=2 - Msg 1
2020-01-14 21:59:48,713 [ INFO, 5] Logging from WorkerID=2 - Msg 2
2020-01-14 21:59:49,713 [ INFO, 5] Logging from WorkerID=2 - Msg 3
2020-01-14 21:59:50,713 [ INFO, 5] Logging from WorkerID=2 - Msg 4

C:\logs\Worker3_TaskLog.log

2020-01-14 21:59:46,696 [ INFO, 6] Logging from WorkerID=3 - Msg 0
2020-01-14 21:59:47,714 [ INFO, 6] Logging from WorkerID=3 - Msg 1
2020-01-14 21:59:48,714 [ INFO, 6] Logging from WorkerID=3 - Msg 2
2020-01-14 21:59:49,714 [ INFO, 6] Logging from WorkerID=3 - Msg 3
2020-01-14 21:59:50,714 [ INFO, 6] Logging from WorkerID=3 - Msg 4

C:\logs\Worker4_TaskLog.log

2020-01-14 21:59:47,580 [ INFO, 7] Logging from WorkerID=4 - Msg 0
2020-01-14 21:59:48,580 [ INFO, 7] Logging from WorkerID=4 - Msg 1
2020-01-14 21:59:49,580 [ INFO, 7] Logging from WorkerID=4 - Msg 2
2020-01-14 21:59:50,580 [ INFO, 7] Logging from WorkerID=4 - Msg 3
2020-01-14 21:59:51,580 [ INFO, 7] Logging from WorkerID=4 - Msg 4