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System.Diagnostics is a namespace of the .NET framework. It provides classes that allow you to interact with system processes, event logs, and performance counters.

System.Diagnostics is a namespace of the .NET framework. It provides classes that allow you to interact with system processes, event logs, and performance counters.

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How can I find the method that called the current method?

When logging in C#, how can I learn the name of the method that called the current method? I know all about System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod(), but I want to go one step beneath this in the stack trace. I've considered parsing the stack…
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Can Stopwatch be used in production code?

I need an accurate timer, and DateTime.Now seems not accurate enough. From the descriptions I read, System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch seems to be exactly what I want. But I have a phobia. I'm nervous about using anything from System.Diagnostics in…
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System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine in production code

I should probably know this already, but I'm not sure and I don't see it documented. I use System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine quite often during the development process to be able to track changes to variables or exceptions as I'm debugging the…
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How can I programmatically limit my program's CPU usage to below 70%?

Of late, I'm becoming more health oriented when constructing my program, I have observed that most of programs take 2 or 3 minutes to execute and when I check on the task scheduler, I see that they consume 100% of CPU usage, can I limit this usage…
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Difference between ElapsedTicks, ElapsedMilliseconds, Elapsed.Milliseconds and Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds? (C#)

I'm totally confused between these 4. What is the difference between ElapsedMilliseconds (long), ElapsedTicks (long), Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds (double) and Elapsed.Milliseconds (int)? I have a function { Stopwatch sw = new…
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When should I use Tracing vs Logger.NET, Enterprise Library, log4net or Ukadc.Diagnostics?

How do I choose between standard tracing, Logger.NET, Enterprise Library, log4net or Ukadc.Diagnostics? Is there a situation where one is more appropriate than the other? ... what would that be? (ASP.NET, console app, Azure Cloud, SOHO,…
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How to get the output of a System.Diagnostics.Process?

I run ffmpeg like this: System.Diagnostics.Process p = new System.Diagnostics.Process(); p.StartInfo = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo(ffmpegPath, myParams); p.Start(); p.WaitForExit(); ... but the problem is that the console with ffmpeg…
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Using PerformanceCounter to track memory and CPU usage per process?

How can I use System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter to track the memory and CPU usage for a process?
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Difference between Debugger.Launch and Debugger.Break

What's the difference between Debugger.Launch(); Debugger.Break(); ?
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Difference between using Trace and TraceSource

Anyone knows the difference between System.Diagnostic.Trace and System.Diagnostic.TraceSource classes? I've been using Trace for most of my projects and I just happen to found out about TraceSource the other day. They seems to offer similar API, is…
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"Gracefully" killing a process

Right now I am using Process.Kill() to kill a process. Is there a way though, instead of just killing it immediately, that I can like send a message to the process instructing it to close so that it can gracefully clean up and shut down. Basically,…
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How to translate MS Windows OS version numbers into product names in .NET?

How to translate MS Windows OS version numbers into product names? For example, in .NET the following two properties could be used to work out that the product is MS Windows Vista Ultimate Edition : Environment.OSVersion.Platform returns…
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Trace logs location, where to view them

Where do you see Trace.Write(""); logs while developing an MVC or WCF app? What is the correct place to look at?
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How do I know when the last OutputDataReceived has arrived?

I have a System.Diagnostics.Process object in a program targeted at the .Net framework 3.5 I have redirected both StandardOutput and StandardError pipes and I'm receiving data from them asynchronously. I've also set an event handler for the Exited…
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Format of Tracing output in System.Diagnostics.TraceSource

The following code: static void Main(string[] args) { TraceSource ts = new TraceSource("MyApplication"); ts.Switch = new SourceSwitch("MySwitch"); ts.Switch.Level = SourceLevels.All; ts.Listeners.Add(new…
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