Is there a logging facade for the .NET world?

Question

I'm somewhat new to the .NET stack and I was wondering if there is an equivalent to slf4j for the .NET platform. For me, logging to a Facade and being able to swap out logging implementations as needed just makes sense. Furthermore, the wrapper APIs available in slf4j have saved me many times when I needed to use a third-party library that was coded against a single logging framework that I wasn't using.

Is there a project out there that acts as a facade between loggers like log4net, nLog and Enterprise Library? Are there wrappers that allow me to shortcut calls to those libraries and direct them to another library? Should I start out an open source project to do this myself? Is this question a duplicate because I don't know the right way to ask? Conversely, is the common way to do this using aspect orient programming?

Answer 1

Excuse I used this thing and I forgot it wasn't the Apache version. It's actually open-source and part of a project called common infrastructure. It is also called common logging. It works with MS Enterprise, log4net and others. It works well.

Answer 2

Take a look at Castle.Services.Logging.

Base code is here. Log4net adapter here. NLog adapter here.

It's pretty easy to write adapters to any other logging framework.

Answer 3

I'm incorporating Simple Logging Facade because it appears to support The Object Guy's Logging Framework for .Net out of the box.