Loren Halvorson has a nice high-level writeup comparing log4net to Microsoft’s new Enterprise Library Logging Block (EntLib) here: Microsoft Enterprise Library Logging Block compared to Log4net.

Peter Provost added a comment from the EntLib product manager.

I’m glad to see MS coming out with more fleshed out application blocks, but they need to keep leaning on them. Keep pushing it out of the “code sample” domain & into the “standard infrastructure” domain, so that the community can write articles on it, add to it, use it widely, so that when I get somebody’s code with logging stuff in it, I can look at it & say “Ah, it’s using the standard well-known such-and-such block, I know how to read, debug, configure, and use that. No sweat.”