Re: Application Trace Profiler

Bryan:

I think I can help you out on this, but where would you want to review the
information that you get back? Are you thinking of something like building
your own "profiler' for your application, having something like the
console/output windows or something of that sort?
"Bryan" <Bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Basically yes, I just want to monitor what is happening with the
application
with the Trace statements in the code. I'm not really looking for
statistics
with Perfmon, but rather key statements or checkpoints of the executing
code,
parameters, etc.. Take SQL Server Profiler as an example. You're able to
see realtime executing SQL statements when running the profiler. I would
like to replicate something similar to attach to "SomeApp" when it's
running
and view it's progress, especially for troubleshooting purposes. Another
example, is Visual Studio's output window that captures Debug.Write() and
Trace.Write() statements and displays the output to the window. Of
course,
I'm trying to do all this by taking advantage of the .NET framework (which
I
can create my own TraceListener), but I would really prefer to capture the
Trace statements without logging to a file or database; only capturing the
output when the custom profiler is profiling the .NET application,
"SomeApp."

"W.G. Ryan - MVP" wrote:

Bryan:

I'm not sure I follow you. Let's say you have some App called SomeApp.
Are
you wanting to just attach to it and find out what's going on with it?
It's
going to need to have output of some sort to do this other than your
basic
Perfmon stuff (which is quite powerful). can you tell me a little more
about what exactly you need to do? I'll do what I can from there.

Cheers,

Bill
"Bryan" <Bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Does anyone have an example of an application that can connect to a
running
process and capture Trace.WriteLine calls like in SQL Server Profiler?
I
know that we can inherit from a TraceListener class to write to files,
databases, etc..., but I would really like to attach to running .NET
processes and get the results without any logging and instead capture
the
real-time results when troubleshooting.





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