Using Tracing in ASP.NET Web API

While debugging an ASP.NET Web API you may need to figure out how your code is being executed and you may also want to track its execution sequence. That is where tracing comes into the picture. Using tracing you can trace the flow of execution and various events happening in the Web API. You can either use the default trace writer provided with the Web API or create your own. This article shows how both of these approaches can be used.

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