Class decorator to declare static member (e.g., for log4net)?

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Published on 2010-05-17T21:24:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 21:30 UTC
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I'm using log4net, and we have a lot of this in our code:

public class Foo {
    private static readonly ILog log = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(Foo));
    ....
}

One downside is that it means we're pasting this 10-word section all over, and every now and then somebody forgets to change the class name. The log4net FAQ also mentions this alternative possibility, which is even more verbose:

public class Foo {
    private static readonly ILog log = LogManager.GetLogger(System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);
    ...
}

Is it possible to write a decorator to define this? I'd really like to say simply:

[LogMe]  // or perhaps: [LogMe("log")]
public class Foo {
    ...
}

I've done similar things in other languages, but never a statically-compiled language like C#. Can I define class members from a decorator?

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