Is there a way to put NLog.config information in my app.config file?

Question

Is there a way to put NLog.config information inside my app.config file? That way, I can have one configuration file instead of two. It might look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <configSections> <section name="nlog" type="..." /> </configSections> <nlog> <targets>...</targets> <rules>...</rules> </nlog> </configuration> 

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Answer 1

Of course, you can put the configuration in the app.config file.

You just need to use NLog.Config.ConfigSectionHandler , so you need to write

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <configSections> <section name="nlog" type="NLog.Config.ConfigSectionHandler, NLog"/> </configSections> <nlog> <targets>...</targets> <rules>...</rules> </nlog> </configuration> 

as described in the NLog documentation in the section Configuration File Format .