Unique log file for each instance of class

Question

I am currently running a windows service that creates multiple instances of a class.

At the top of the service class and every other class in my solution, I have som

Answer 1

I have an article that might help:

http://horth.com/blog/?p=165

This is about changing a logfile at runtime. What you could do is pass in the file name for each instance into your log4net file. That way you could create a log file for each instance of your class. This way your config file is simple and yet you have the flexibility to create a new log file for each class instance.

It was mentioned above that you could log to a database as well with indicators for each instance. If you don't wan to buy anything, use SQL Express which allows 10GB databases. You can even write directly to the MDF file instead of installing SQL.