The methods of the FileAppender class are listed below. For a complete list of FileAppender class members, see the FileAppender Members topic.
Protected Static (Shared) Methods
  ConvertToFullPath | Convert a path into a fully qualified path. |
Public Instance Methods
 ActivateOptions | Activate the options on the file appender. |
| AddFilter (inherited from AppenderSkeleton) | Adds a filter to the end of the filter chain. |
| ClearFilters (inherited from AppenderSkeleton) | Clears the filter list for this appender. |
| Close (inherited from AppenderSkeleton) | Closes the appender and release resources. |
| DoAppend (inherited from AppenderSkeleton) | Overloaded. Performs threshold checks and invokes filters before delegating actual logging to the subclasses specific Append method. |
| Equals (inherited from Object) | � |
| GetHashCode (inherited from Object) | � |
| GetType (inherited from Object) | � |
| ToString (inherited from Object) | � |
Protected Instance Methods
| Append | Overloaded. This method is called by the DoAppend method. |
| CloseFile | Closes the previously opened file. |
| CloseWriter | Closes the underlying TextWriter. |
| FilterEvent (inherited from AppenderSkeleton) | Test if the logging event should we output by this appender |
| Finalize (inherited from AppenderSkeleton) | Finalizes this appender by calling the implementation's Close method. |
| IsAsSevereAsThreshold (inherited from AppenderSkeleton) | Checks if the message level is below this appender's threshold. |
| MemberwiseClone (inherited from Object) | � |
| OnClose (inherited from TextWriterAppender) | Close this appender instance. The underlying stream or writer is also closed. |
| OpenFile | Sets and opens the file where the log output will go. The specified file must be writable. |
| PreAppendCheck (inherited from TextWriterAppender) | This method determines if there is a sense in attempting to append. |
| PrepareWriter | Called to initialize the file writer |
| RenderLoggingEvent (inherited from AppenderSkeleton) | Overloaded. Renders the LoggingEvent to a string. |
| Reset | Closes any previously opened file and calls the parent's Reset. |
| SafeOpenFile | Sets and opens the file where the log output will go. The specified file must be writable. |
| SetQWForFiles | Overloaded. Sets the quiet writer used for file output |
| WriteFooter | Writes a footer as produced by the embedded layout's Footer property. |
| WriteFooterAndCloseWriter (inherited from TextWriterAppender) | Writes the footer and closes the underlying TextWriter. |
| WriteHeader | Writes a header produced by the embedded layout's Header property. |
See Also
FileAppender Class | log4net.Appender Namespace