BugzScoutAppender for log4net

I have been using a custom publisher for Microsoft.ExceptionManagement to submit bugs into FogBugz via BugzScout. For Shipper 2.0 I've decided to update several components including Microsoft.ExceptionManagement with log4net. But I did not want to give up automatic bug report addiction. So I wrote the BugzScoutAppender.

BugzScoutAppender is a custom log4net Appender that submits the LoggingEvent to FogBugz via BugzScout. If you are already wired for log4net, then it is really easy to add BugzScoutAppender. Here is a sample configuration:

<appender name="BugzScoutAppender" type="FogBugz.Appender.BugzScoutAppender, BugzScoutAppender">
  <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout" value="%date [%thread] %level %logger - %message%newline" />
  <descriptionLayout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout" value="%level %message"/>
  <url value="" />      <!-- e.g. <url value="http://localhost/fogbugz/scoutSubmit.asp" /> -->
  <username value="" /> <!-- An existing username -->
  <project value="" />  <!-- An existing project -->
  <area value="" />     <!-- An existing area -->
  <email value="" />    <!-- The submitters email -->
  <addUserAndMachineInformation value="false" />
  <appendAssemblyList value="false" />
</appender>

You can override Username, Project, Area, and Email in your code by adding the corresponding value to the log4net.ThreadContext.Properties. For example:

log4net.ThreadContext.Properties["Email"] = "test@company.com";
log.Error("Hey this is an error!");
log4net.ThreadContext.Properties.Remove("Email");

Both the source code and binary is attached. The source code includes an example application that excersizes the appender.

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