Configure Log4net to write to multiple files

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These answers were helpful, but I wanted to share my answer with both the app.config part and the c# code part, so there is less guessing for the next person.

<log4net>
  <appender name="SomeName" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
    <file value="c:/Console.txt" />
    <appendToFile value="true" />
    <rollingStyle value="Composite" />
    <datePattern value="yyyyMMdd" />
    <maxSizeRollBackups value="10" />
    <maximumFileSize value="1MB" />
  </appender>
  <appender name="Summary" type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender">
    <file value="SummaryFile.log" />
    <appendToFile value="true" />
  </appender>
  <root>
    <level value="ALL" />
    <appender-ref ref="SomeName" />
  </root>
  <logger additivity="false" name="Summary">
    <level value="DEBUG"/>
    <appender-ref ref="Summary" />
  </logger>
</log4net>

Then in code:

ILog Log = LogManager.GetLogger("SomeName");
ILog SummaryLog = LogManager.GetLogger("Summary");
Log.DebugFormat("Processing");
SummaryLog.DebugFormat("Processing2"));

Here c:/Console.txt will contain “Processing” …
and \SummaryFile.log will contain “Processing2”

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