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Logging with NLog

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The article describes how to configure nlog to log reports as per your requirement
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using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Globalization;

namespace NLog.LayoutRenderers
{
    /// <summary>
    /// The logger name.
    /// </summary>
    [LayoutRenderer("logger")]
    public class LoggerNameLayoutRenderer: LayoutRenderer
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the estimated number of characters that are needed to
        /// hold the rendered value for the specified logging event.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="ev">Logging event information.</param>
        /// <returns>The number of characters.</returns>
        /// <remarks>
        /// If the exact number is not known or
        /// expensive to calculate this function should return a rough estimate
        /// that's big enough in most cases, but not too big, in order to conserve memory.
        /// </remarks>
        protected internal override int GetEstimatedBufferSize(LogEventInfo ev)
        {
            return 32;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Renders the logger name and appends it to the specified <see cref="StringBuilder" />.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="builder">The <see cref="StringBuilder"/> to append the rendered data to.</param>
        /// <param name="ev">Logging event.</param>
        protected internal override void Append(StringBuilder builder, LogEventInfo ev)
        {
            builder.Append(ApplyPadding(ev.LoggerName));
        }
    }
}

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