>From what I can see from the help files, this trace stuff is just a fancy way of writing to data to a file (if that's the listener I choose) if a flag is set and I can't see any advantage of it over standard logging to a file if a flag is set. I assume I'm wrong because I can't see MS spending a lot of time on this for no reason. So what am I missing?
Message from Frans Bouma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM received on 08/25/2005 09:30 AM 08/25/2005 09:30 AM Frans Bouma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Please respond to "Unmoderated discussion of advanced .NET topics." <[email protected]> Sent by "Unmoderated discussion of advanced .NET topics." <[email protected]> To: [email protected] cc: Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Writing code for Debugging > I've been given the task of coming up with a standard for our > new app for help in debugging the code when a client calls in > and has a problem. So far, all I can think of is to log all > variable values at the beggening of all functions and logging > the output of all functions. Also logging all screen data > (if grid, only current row). > > Questions: > > 1) What have you done in the past to help debugging? > > 2) Is there a better way then my idea above? Yes, look into trace switches and listeners. You can make life easier with a library like Log4Net for example which has a lot of different fine grained trace listeners on board. The main thing is that trace switches can be turned on or off with a .config file, and the output receiver can also be configured in the config file. This means that you don't have to recompile a build for your customer to enable logging of data at runtime. Enabling tracing is very simple, the .NET documentation has a lot of info on this (tracing, trace listeners, trace switches). Also log4net has extra documentation if you want to use log4net for this (you can use the default .NET build in tracing) Frans =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
