NullTarget Class

public sealed class NullTarget : TargetWithLayout

Public NotInheritable Class NullTarget
	Inherits TargetWithLayout

Dim instance As NullTarget

[<SealedAttribute>]
type NullTarget =  
    class
        inherit TargetWithLayout
    end

 1<?xml version="1.0" ?>
 2<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 3      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd NLog.xsd">
 4
 5    <targets>
 6        <target name="n" xsi:type="Null" layout="${message}" formatMessage="true" />
 7    </targets>
 8
 9    <rules>
10        <logger name="*" minlevel="Debug" writeTo="n" />
11    </rules>
12</nlog>

 1using NLog;
 2using NLog.Config;
 3using NLog.Targets;
 4
 5class Example
 6{
 7    static void Main(string[] args)
 8    {
 9        NullTarget target = new NullTarget();
10        target.Layout = "${message}";
11        target.FormatMessage = true;
12
13        LoggingConfiguration nlogConfig = new LoggingConfiguration();
14        nlogConfig.AddRuleForAllLevels(target);
15        LogManager.Configuration = nlogConfig;
16
17        Logger logger = LogManager.GetLogger("Example");
18        logger.Debug("log message");
19    }
20}