void Format(
	TextWriter writer,
	LoggingEvent loggingEvent
)

Sub Format ( 
	writer As TextWriter,
	loggingEvent As LoggingEvent
)

void Format(
	TextWriter^ writer, 
	LoggingEvent^ loggingEvent
)

abstract Format : 
        writer : TextWriter * 
        loggingEvent : LoggingEvent -> unit 

Parameters

writer

Type: System.IOTextWriter
The TextWriter to write the formatted event to

loggingEvent

Type: log4net.CoreLoggingEvent
The event to format

This method is called by an appender to format the loggingEvent as text and output to a writer.

If the caller does not have a TextWriter and prefers the event to be formatted as a String then the following code can be used to format the event into a StringWriter.

StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
Layout.Format(writer, loggingEvent);
string formattedEvent = writer.ToString();

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