Using Trace and Switches in ASP.NET

[Thomas Koch]

Hi there - I am developing a general library which allows programs to access
our server product.

I am using the System.Configuration.Trace and
System.Configuration.BooleanSwitch classes for logging at runtime in my
library. When developing a console/windows application a user simply has to
set up a few switches and a trace listener within the application config
file in order to enable logging in the library:

<system.diagnostics>
<switches>
<add name="RobotExecuter" value="1" />
</switches>

<trace autoflush="true" >
<listeners>
<add name="mylog"
type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener"
initializeData="robosuite.log.txt" />
</listeners>
</trace>
</system.diagnostics>

Now I would very much like to do the same in an ASP.NET application, however
the schema for Web.config files do not allow me to insert a
<system.diagnostics> section. Also I have been unable to locate any
configuration section handler which handles the system.diagnostic section.

How do I do this in ASP.NET? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Thomas Koch

 

[Natty Gur]

Hi,

You just need to put <system.diagnostics> tag directly under
<configuration> tag and not under <system.web> tag :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<system.diagnostics>
<trace autoflush="false" indentsize="4"/>
<assert assertuienabled="false" logfilename="c:\AssertLog.txt"/>
</system.diagnostics>

<system.web>


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[Thomas Koch]

Thank you - that worked. I thought I'd tried that but I must have done some
other error.

Thomas