How to configure log4net programmatically from scratch (no config)

Here’s an example class that creates log4net config completely in code. I should mention that creating a logger via a static method is generally viewed as bad, but in my context, this is what I wanted. Regardless, you can carve up the code to meet your needs.

using log4net;
using log4net.Repository.Hierarchy;
using log4net.Core;
using log4net.Appender;
using log4net.Layout;

namespace dnservices.logging
{
public class Logger
{
    private PatternLayout _layout = new PatternLayout();
    private const string LOG_PATTERN = "%d [%t] %-5p %m%n";

    public string DefaultPattern
    {
        get { return LOG_PATTERN; }
    }

    public Logger()
    {
        _layout.ConversionPattern = DefaultPattern;
        _layout.ActivateOptions();
    }

    public PatternLayout DefaultLayout
    {
        get { return _layout; }
    }

    public void AddAppender(IAppender appender)
    {
        Hierarchy hierarchy = 
            (Hierarchy)LogManager.GetRepository();

        hierarchy.Root.AddAppender(appender);
    }

    static Logger()
    {
        Hierarchy hierarchy = (Hierarchy)LogManager.GetRepository();
        TraceAppender tracer = new TraceAppender();
        PatternLayout patternLayout = new PatternLayout();

        patternLayout.ConversionPattern = LOG_PATTERN;
        patternLayout.ActivateOptions();

        tracer.Layout = patternLayout;
        tracer.ActivateOptions();
        hierarchy.Root.AddAppender(tracer);

        RollingFileAppender roller = new RollingFileAppender();
        roller.Layout = patternLayout;
        roller.AppendToFile = true;
        roller.RollingStyle = RollingFileAppender.RollingMode.Size;
        roller.MaxSizeRollBackups = 4;
        roller.MaximumFileSize = "100KB";
        roller.StaticLogFileName = true;
        roller.File = "dnservices.txt";
        roller.ActivateOptions();
        hierarchy.Root.AddAppender(roller);

        hierarchy.Root.Level = Level.All;
        hierarchy.Configured = true;
    }

    public static ILog Create()
    {
        return LogManager.GetLogger("dnservices");
    }
}

}