Simple way to perform error logging?

Create a class called Log.cs I am using Linq To SQl to save to the database

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Text;
public static partial class Log
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Saves the exception details to ErrorLogging db with Low Priority
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="ex">The exception.</param>
    public static void Save(this Exception ex)
    {
        Save(ex, ImpactLevel.Low, "");
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Saves the exception details to ErrorLogging db with specified ImpactLevel
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="ex">The exception.</param>
    /// <param name="impactLevel">The Impact level.</param>
    public static void Save(this Exception ex, ImpactLevel impactLevel)
    {
        Save(ex, impactLevel,"");
    }
    /// <summary>
    /// Saves the exception details to ErrorLogging db with specified ImpactLevel and user message
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="ex">The exception</param>
    /// <param name="impactLevel">The impact level.</param>
    /// <param name="errorDescription">The error Description.</param>
    public static void Save(this Exception ex, ImpactLevel impactLevel, string errorDescription)
    {
        using (var db = new ErrorLoggingDataContext())
        {
            Log log = new Log();

            if (errorDescription != null && errorDescription != "")
            {
                log.ErrorShortDescription = errorDescription;
            }
            log.ExceptionType = ex.GetType().FullName;
            var stackTrace = new StackTrace(ex, true);
            var allFrames = stackTrace.GetFrames().ToList();
            foreach (var frame in allFrames)
            {
                log.FileName = frame.GetFileName();
                log.LineNumber = frame.GetFileLineNumber();
                var method = frame.GetMethod();
                log.MethodName = method.Name;
                log.ClassName = frame.GetMethod().DeclaringType.ToString();
            }

            log.ImpactLevel = impactLevel.ToString();
            try
            {
                log.ApplicationName = Assembly.GetCallingAssembly().GetName().Name;
            }
            catch
            {
                log.ApplicationName = "";
            }

            log.ErrorMessage = ex.Message;
            log.StackTrace = ex.StackTrace;
            if (ex.InnerException != null)
            {
                log.InnerException = ex.InnerException.ToString();
                log.InnerExceptionMessage = ex.InnerException.Message;
            }
            log.IpAddress = ""; //get the ip address

            if (System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached)
            {
                log.IsProduction = false;
            }

            try
            {
                db.Logs.InsertOnSubmit(log);
                db.SubmitChanges();
            }
            catch (Exception eex)
            {

            }
        }
    }
}

Create the following table

USE [database Name]
GO

/****** Object:  Table [dbo].[Log]    Script Date: 9/27/2016 11:52:32 AM ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

SET ANSI_PADDING ON
GO

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Log](
    [LogId] [INT] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [ErrorDate] [DATETIME] NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_Log_Date]  DEFAULT (GETDATE()),
    [ErrorShortDescription] [VARCHAR](1000) NULL,
    [ExceptionType] [VARCHAR](255) NULL,
    [FileName] [VARCHAR](1000) NULL,
    [LineNumber] [INT] NULL,
    [MethodName] [VARCHAR](255) NULL,
    [ClassName] [VARCHAR](150) NULL,
    [ImpactLevel] [VARCHAR](50) NOT NULL,
    [ApplicationName] [VARCHAR](255) NULL,
    [ErrorMessage] [VARCHAR](4000) NULL,
    [StackTrace] [VARCHAR](MAX) NULL,
    [InnerException] [VARCHAR](2000) NULL,
    [InnerExceptionMessage] [VARCHAR](2000) NULL,
    [IpAddress] [VARCHAR](150) NULL,
    [IsProduction] [BIT] NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_Log_IsProduction]  DEFAULT ((1)),
    [LastModified] [DATETIME] NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_Log_LastModified]  DEFAULT (GETDATE()),
 CONSTRAINT [PK_Log] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED 
(
    [LogId] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]

GO

SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
GO

EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'MS_Description', @value=N'This table holds all the exceptions. 
ErrorData = when error happened
,[ErrorShortDescription] == short desc about the error entered by the developers
      ,[FileName] = file where error happened full path
      ,[LineNumber] = line number where code failed
      ,[MethodName] = method name where exception happened
      ,[ClassName] = class where exception happened
      ,[ImpactLevel] = high, medium, low
      ,[ApplicationName] = name of the application where error came from
      ,[ErrorMessage] = exception error messge
      ,[StackTrace] = C# stack trace
      ,[InnerException] = inner exception of strack trace
      ,[InnerExceptionMessage] = inner message
      ,[IpAddress]
      ,[IsProduction]' , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'dbo', @level1type=N'TABLE',@level1name=N'Log'
GO

Impact Level is basically Enum

 public enum ImpactLevel
    {
        High = 0,
        Medium = 1,
        Low = 2,
    }

You can use it as following

try
{


}
catch(Exception ex)
{
    //this will save the exception details and mark exception as low priority
    ex.Save();
}


try
{


}
catch(Exception ex)
{
    //this will save the exception details with  priority you define: High, Medium,Low
    ex.Save(ImpactLevel.Medium);
}

try
{


}
catch(Exception ex)
{
    //this will save the exception details with  priority you define: High, Medium,Low
    ex.Save(ImpactLevel.Medium, "You can enter an details you want here ");
}

After reading the suggestions here, I ended up using the following:

private void LogSystemError(string message)
{
    EventLog.WriteEntry("YourAppName", message, EventLogEntryType.Error);
}

The EventLog class is available using System.Diagnostics.

I avoided the options of logging into files (e.g. "yourLogFile.txt") to avoid issues of concurrency of multiple threads logging errors, location of the file and access security, and the possible issues of having a file that grows too large.

Instead of using log4net which is an external library I have created my own simple class, highly customizable and easy to use (edit YOURNAMESPACEHERE with the namespace that you need).

CONSOLE APP

using System;
using System.IO;

namespace YOURNAMESPACEHERE
{
    enum LogEvent
    {
        Info = 0,
        Success = 1,
        Warning = 2,
        Error = 3
    }

    internal static class Log
    {
        private static readonly string LogSession = DateTime.Now.ToLocalTime().ToString("ddMMyyyy_HHmmss");
        private static readonly string LogPath = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "logs";

        internal static void Write(LogEvent Level, string Message, bool ShowConsole = true, bool WritelogFile = true)
        {
            string Event = string.Empty;
            ConsoleColor ColorEvent = Console.ForegroundColor;

            switch (Level)
            {
                case LogEvent.Info:
                    Event = "INFO";
                    ColorEvent = ConsoleColor.White;
                    break;
                case LogEvent.Success:
                    Event = "SUCCESS";
                    ColorEvent = ConsoleColor.Green;
                    break;
                case LogEvent.Warning:
                    Event = "WARNING";
                    ColorEvent = ConsoleColor.Yellow;
                    break;
                case LogEvent.Error:
                    Event = "ERROR";
                    ColorEvent = ConsoleColor.Red;
                    break;
            }

            if (ShowConsole)
            {
                Console.ForegroundColor = ColorEvent;
                Console.WriteLine(" [{0}] => {1}", DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss"), Message);
                Console.ResetColor();
            }

            if (WritelogFile)
            {
                if (!Directory.Exists(LogPath))
                    Directory.CreateDirectory(LogPath);

                File.AppendAllText(LogPath + @"\" + LogSession + ".log", string.Format("[{0}] => {1}: {2}\n", DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss"), Event, Message));
            }
        }
    }
}

NO CONSOLE APP (ONLY LOG)

using System;
using System.IO;

namespace YOURNAMESPACEHERE
{
    enum LogEvent
    {
        Info = 0,
        Success = 1,
        Warning = 2,
        Error = 3
    }

internal static class Log
{
    private static readonly string LogSession = DateTime.Now.ToLocalTime().ToString("ddMMyyyy_HHmmss");
    private static readonly string LogPath = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "logs";

    internal static void Write(LogEvent Level, string Message)
    {
        string Event = string.Empty;

        switch (Level)
        {
            case LogEvent.Info:
                Event = "INFO";
                break;
            case LogEvent.Success:
                Event = "SUCCESS";
                break;
            case LogEvent.Warning:
                Event = "WARNING";
                break;
            case LogEvent.Error:
                Event = "ERROR";
                break;
        }

        if (!Directory.Exists(LogPath))
            Directory.CreateDirectory(LogPath);

        File.AppendAllText(LogPath + @"\" + LogSession + ".log", string.Format("[{0}] => {1}: {2}\n", DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss"), Event, Message));
    }
}

Usage:

CONSOLE APP

Log.Write(LogEvent.Info, "Test message"); // It will print an info in your console, also will save a copy of this print in a .log file.
Log.Write(LogEvent.Warning, "Test message", false); // It will save the print as warning only in your .log file.
Log.Write(LogEvent.Error, "Test message", true, false); // It will print an error only in your console.

NO CONSOLE APP (ONLY LOG)

Log.Write(LogEvent.Info, "Test message"); // It will print an info in your .log file.