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# XmlConfigurator.Configure Method ()

Automatically configures the log4net system based on the application's configuration settings.

[Visual Basic]
Overloads Public Shared Sub Configure()
[C#]
public static void Configure();

#### Remarks

Each application has a configuration file. This has the same name as the application with '.config' appended. This file is XML and calling this function prompts the configurator to look in that file for a section called `log4net` that contains the configuration data.

To use this method to configure log4net you must specify the Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler section handler for the `log4net` configuration section. See the Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler for an example.

#### See Also

XmlConfigurator Class | log4net.Config Namespace | XmlConfigurator.Configure Overload List | Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler