| Feature | .NET 3.5 | .NET 4.0 | .NET 4.5 | NetStandard | Xamarin iOs | Xamarin Android | Mono | WP8 | Silverlight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| read app.config/web.config | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| autoloading .dll | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.5+ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| auto reload | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.5+ | ✓ | ||||
| stacktrace with source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.5+ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| fluent interface | ✓ | ✓ | ? | ||||||
| NLogTraceListener | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 2.0 | ✓ |
NetStandard 1.5 cannot perform autoload of DLLs from nuget-packages that places dlls in sub-folders.
| Layout Renderer | .NET 3.5 | .NET 4.0 | .NET 4.5 | NetStandard | Xamarin iOs | Xamarin Android | Mono | WP8 | Silverlight | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AllEventProperties | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Include Caller Information: .NET 4.5 only |
| AppDomain | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.5+ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| AspApplicationValue | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| AspRequestValue | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| AspSessionValue | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| AssemblyVersion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | See notes |
| BaseDir | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| CallSite | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ± | ±: no file name or source path |
| CallSiteLineNumber | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Counter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Date | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| DocumentUri | ✓ | |||||||||
| Environment | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| EventContext | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| EventProperties | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Exception | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ± | ±: no method name |
| FileContents | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| GarbageCollectorInfo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ± | ±: no collection count option | |
| Gdc | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Guid | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Identity | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 2.0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| InstallContext | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Level | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Literal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Log4JXmlEvent | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ± | ±: no file name or source path |
| LoggerName | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| LongDate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| MachineName | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Mdc | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Mdlc | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| Message | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| NewLine | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Ndc | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Ndlc | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| NLogDir | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.5+ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| PerformanceCounter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| ProcessId | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.5+ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| ProcessInfo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.5+ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| ProcessName | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.5+ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| ProcessTime | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| QueryPerformanceCounter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| Registry | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| ShortDate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| SilverlightApplicationInfo | ✓ | |||||||||
| SpecialFolder | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 2.0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| StackTrace | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| TempDir | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ThreadId | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ThreadName | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.5+ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Ticks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Time | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| TraceActivityId | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 2.0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Variable | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| WindowsIdentity | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ± | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ±: NLog.WindowsIdentity nuget package |
| Layout renderer | .NET 3.5 | .NET 4.0 | .NET 4.5 | NetStandard | Xamarin iOs | Xamarin Android | Mono | WP8 | Silverlight | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cached | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| FileSystemNormalize | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| JsonEncode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Lowercase | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| OnException | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Padding | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Replace | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ReplaceNewLines | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Rot13 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| TrimWhiteSpace | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Uppercase | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| UrlEncode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| WrapLine | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| WhenEmpty | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| XmlEncode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Target | .NET 3.5 | .NET 4.0 | .NET 4.5 | NetStandard | Xamarin iOs | Xamarin Android | Mono | WP8 | Silverlight | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AspResponse | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
| Chainsaw | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ColoredConsole | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.5+ | ✓ | ±: no encoding | ||||
| Console | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.5+ | ± | ± | ✓ | ± | ± | ±: no encoding |
| Database | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ± | ✓ | ±: no transactions or reading from .config | ||||
| Debug | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Debugger | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| EventLog | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| File | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| LogReceiverWebService | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ± | ✓ | ✓ | ±: NLog.WCF nuget package | |||
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 2.0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Memory | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| MethodCall | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| NLogViewer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ± | ±: no UDP |
| Network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Null | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| OutputDebugString | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| PerformanceCounter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| Trace | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 1.5+ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| WebService | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Target | .NET 3.5 | .NET 4.0 | .NET 4.5 | NetStandard | Xamarin iOs | Xamarin Android | Mono | WP8 | Silverlight | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AsyncWrapper | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| AutoFlushWrapper | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| BufferingWrapper | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| FilteringWrapper | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| FallbackGroup | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| FilteringWrapper | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ImpersonatingWrapper | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| LimitingWrapper | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PostFilteringWrapper | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| RandomizeGroup | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| RepeatingWrapper | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| RetryingWrapper | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| RoundRobinGroup | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| SplitGroup | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |