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Hi,

I've been looking for a good Trace message monitoring tool to monitor trace
messages (through System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine() etc).

I need it to collect traces from non-EXE code (esp. WebParts).

Can anyone recommend a good tool for my purpose?

Many thanks in advance.

Rukmal.

Maybe the tools from SysInternals is what you are looking for. It will catch
all call make to Trace.WriteLine:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr...ebugview.shtml
José
"Rukmal Fernando" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi,
>
> I've been looking for a good Trace message monitoring tool to monitor
trace
> messages (through System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine() etc).
>
> I need it to collect traces from non-EXE code (esp. WebParts).
>
> Can anyone recommend a good tool for my purpose?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Rukmal.
>
>

"José Joye" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Maybe the tools from SysInternals is what you are looking for. It will
catch
> all call make to Trace.WriteLine:
>
> http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr...ebugview.shtml

I took a look at the above URL, but it doesn't say anything about capturing
the output of Trace.WriteLine.

In order to catch the output of Trace.WriteLine, you will need to create an
instance of a class deriving from System.Diagnostics.TraceListener and then
add it to the Trace.Listeners collection.


--
John Saunders
Internet Engineer



> José
> "Rukmal Fernando" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been looking for a good Trace message monitoring tool to monitor
> trace
> > messages (through System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine() etc).
> >
> > I need it to collect traces from non-EXE code (esp. WebParts).
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a good tool for my purpose?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance.
> >
> > Rukmal.
> >
> >
>
>

You might take a look at my article on tracelisteners at
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/cu...celistener.asp

It has some example code for setting up a tracelistener.

Jerry Dennany



"Rukmal Fernando" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi,
>
> I've been looking for a good Trace message monitoring tool to monitor
trace
> messages (through System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine() etc).
>
> I need it to collect traces from non-EXE code (esp. WebParts).
>
> Can anyone recommend a good tool for my purpose?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Rukmal.
>
>

John Saunders wrote:
> "José Joye" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> Maybe the tools from SysInternals is what you are looking for. It
>> will catch all call make to Trace.WriteLine:
>>
>> http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr...ebugview.shtml
>
> I took a look at the above URL, but it doesn't say anything about
> capturing the output of Trace.WriteLine.

Jose means the output from the standard DefaultTraceListener class which
generates messages using OutputDebugString. DebugView is an excellent tool
to do this. BTW OutputDebugString is a double edges sword because it couples
your application to the application reading the strings. If the reader
program is not written correctly (eg you put a large delay in the code that
reads the debug strings) then the thread writing the strings will be
blocked. DebugView is well written, of course . The VS.NET debugger will
also read OutputDebugStrings, but only for the process that is being
debugged. DebugView will do that for _all_ processes.

Richard
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