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Logging

12 Mar 2026 5 min

Fail Closed: Best Practices for Service Startup Behavior and Logging

A fail-closed approach to service startup failures, paired with a Windows Event Log structure that keeps operators informed.

Development
02 Aug 2011 3 min

Performance-Analyzing of log4net regarding creation of new logger vs. taking an existing one

A small performance test of log4net logger access in the context of PostSharp AOP, comparing reused, repeatedly resolved, and individual loggers to evaluate the cost of runtime logger lookup.

Development
31 May 2011 2 min

Break the mechanism, that GAC-assemblies could only bind to other GAC-assemblies

How an AppDomain.AssemblyResolve handler lets a GAC-deployed assembly bind to a dependency that isn't itself in the GAC.

Development
20 Mar 2008 1 min

Hierarchy of log4net-loggers (namespace vs class)

Why you don't need a wildcard when configuring log4net parameters for all loggers within a namespace.

Programming

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