Basic System.Diagnostics

The .NET framework has shipped with the System.Diagnostics namespace since version 1.0. My efforts to build a method context information gathering framework on the services of System.Diagnostics has brought me a deeper understanding of its classes and configuration settings. I will talk about my method context information gathering framework in a later post, but first I thought I would get us all on the same page on System.Diagnostics.

System.Diagnostics implements several classes that play a key role in outputting trace text from your application. Better understanding these classes will bring you insights in to how to extend the existing diagnostic framework in .NET or how to set up the configuration file to make full use of the out-of-the-box functionality.

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