title: Setting up Log4Net Colored Console Made Easy
body: <p>I am looking for a <strong>Log4Net</strong> viewer that I can watch in <strong>realtime</strong> in a separate console window not in the Visual Studio output window where its mixed with hundreds of other messages.</p>
  
  <p>I see there is a <strong>ManagedColoredConsoleAppender</strong> and <strong>ColoredConsoleAppender</strong> out of the box, but unsure how to get the output to be directed to an external console window. Ideally, when you debug the console window would launch, but not a requirement.</p>
  
  <p>I have used the <strong>OutputDebugger</strong> back in the day, but have not found an easy way to get all this working.</p>
  
  <p>If somebody could share how to get all this wired up and working quickly that would be much appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>This would mainly be used for development locally, but would be nice if we could redirect errors from staging and qa to a nice little window on my machine to see whats going on in realtime!</p>