using AppData location in NLog
My NLog targets is like this:
<targets>
<target xsi:type="Console" name="console"
layout="${longdate}|${level}|${message}" />
<target xsi:type="File" name="ErrorLog" fileName="${basedir}/error.txt"
layout="${longdate}
Trace: ${stacktrace}
${message}" />
<target xsi:type="File" name="AccessLog" fileName="${basedir}/access.txt"
layout="${shortdate} | ${message}" />
</targets>
But this causes problems if the user isn't an admin on their machine, because they will not have write access to "Program Files". How can I get something like %AppData%
to NLog instead of BaseDir?
Solution 1:
You're looking for the NLog special folders.
Example:
...fileName="${specialfolder:folder=ApplicationData}/Program/file.txt"...
Solution 2:
Oren's answer should be the right answer. However, for the life of me I couldn't get it to work with my .NET 4.0 website using nLog 2.0.0.0. I ended up using simply
fileName="${basedir}app_data\logs\${shortdate}.log"
Solution 3:
${specialfolder:ApplicationData} also works