c# - having an issue saving NLog file to basefolder

Question

I'm having a hard time understanding why ${basedir} does nothing to the current directory of the project and when I change it to the explicit path it does saves the log. I tried to change the name of ${basedir} to ${currentdir} but it did nothing.

This one works

  <target xsi:type="File" name="myAppLoggerTarget" fileName="C:UsersOmerDesktopDBBalancersLogs${shortdate}.log"
         layout="${longdate} ${uppercase:${level}} ${message}" />

This one works

<target xsi:type="File" name="myAppLoggerTarget" fileName="${basedir}/logs/${shortdate}.log"
        layout="${longdate} ${uppercase:${level}} ${message}" />

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65644929/having-an-issue-saving-nlog-file-to-basefolder

Answer 1

Link to nlog docs suggests: "The current application domain's base directory."

I would try to print out the: "AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory" and see whats the value of that variable.

On the same nlog docs page you can also find about process dir: processDir - Introduced in NLog 4.4.2. Render the base directory of the current process? Default false.