Change where Trace.WriteLine() is sent in a console application

Asked May 16 '18 at 23:34

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I have a console application that uses an assembly that I cannot modify. Said assembly has a conditional define to output debug data via Trace.WriteLine() when the configuration of the application is Debug.

Now in my console application this means that I get heaps of data output to the console window which I don't want.

So is there anything I can do in my console application (I still want to build and run it with Debug configuration) so that I can redirect the output of those Trace.WriteLine() elsewhere when running with a Debug configuration? Say to a text file?

edited May 17 '18 at 00:02

Camilo Terevinto

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What's that "ASP.NET 4.x" at the beginning of the question meant to represent? How is it relevant? – Camilo Terevinto May 16 '18 at 23:43
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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.defaulttracelistener(v=vs.110).aspx – Hans Passant May 16 '18 at 23:45
@CamiloTerevinto meant to say .NET not ASP.NET and indicates that I am not running .NET Core – TheEdge May 17 '18 at 00:02
[tag:.net] => .NET Framework. [tag:.net-core] => .NET Core. That's what tags are for – Camilo Terevinto May 17 '18 at 00:03
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Possible duplicate of [Overriding System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine to log to a file](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/870634/overriding-system-diagnostics-trace-writeline-to-log-to-a-file) – Heretic Monkey May 17 '18 at 00:06
@CamiloTerevinto Thanks. Good to know that versions of things are not important anymore. – TheEdge May 17 '18 at 11:12

Change where Trace.WriteLine() is sent in a console application

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