ASP.NET Application – Tracing

Question

We are working on an ASP.NET application and planned to use tracing.

Here I need few clarifications.

Is it the common practice that people use trace statements in .NET real time applications? If so could anyone please refer a document with standard way of writing these in real time web applications.

Many Thanks,

Regards.

Bhavna.

Answer 1

Have you looked at ELMAH?

Logging Error Details with ELMAH

Error Logging Modules And Handlers (ELMAH) offers an approach to logging runtime errors in a production environment. ELMAH is a free, open source error logging library that includes features like error filtering and the ability to view the error log from a web page, as an RSS feed, or to download it as a comma-delimited file.

Log4Net is a commonly used approach to logging (this is the approach I usually use).

Searching SO is always a good idea:

• Logging for ASP.NET - Best Practices

• ASP.NET Logging - log4net or health monitoring?

• Write to a log file in ASP.NET