[LOG4NET-88] [PATCH] to AdoNetAppender.cs to support .NET 2.0 connectionStrings configuration section

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.10
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.11
• Component/s: Appenders
• Environment: Windows XP .NET 2.0
• Assignee: liu ron
• Reporter: Haacked
• Created: 08/Aug/06 07:27
• Updated: 19/May/10 09:50
• Resolved: 31/Dec/07 20:48

Description

This is a patch for LOG4NET-78 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4NET-78. This adds a new "connectionStringName" attribute (and corresponding ConnectionStringName) property to the AdoNetAppender class. This is a reference to a connection string within the <ConnectionStrings> section of an App.config or Web.config file.

The choice of name "connectionStringName" is consistent with the naming that Microsoft uses in the various Providers such as SqlMembershipProvider.

I made sure to put this code in between #if NET_2_0 blocks. However, the patch does not include the required change to the log4net.csproj file which needs to reference the System.Configuration.dll (C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.configuration.dll) assembly.

This is a .NET 2.0 only assembly so I was unsure how to add a conditional compilation element so that the project reference would not break log4net for .NET 1.0 and .NET 1.1.

If there is a better way to do so, please let me know!