Tracing in ASP.NET Web APIhttp://asp.netWed, 27 Feb 2013 14:38:06 GMTumbracoComments for Tracing in ASP.NET Web APIenComment Posted by obayanihttp://asp.net/web-api/overview/testing-and-debugging/tracing-in-aspnet-web-apiThu, 07 Jun 2012 09:03:19 GMT00000000-0000-0000-0000000015716Excellent article Mike.

I have a question: why just not use System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine (or the Debug one if you need to remove tracing in release) or any other logging api directly? I agree that replacing the default trace manager is better and more streamlined but putting a simple Trace.WriteLine is more straightforward and simple. Nevertheless, the use of one or the other methods must be discussed according to the development constraints which are different between projects.

]]>Comment Posted by MikeWassonhttp://asp.net/web-api/overview/testing-and-debugging/tracing-in-aspnet-web-apiWed, 20 Jun 2012 01:16:27 GMT00000000-0000-0000-0000000015807obayani: If you want to enable the tracing that is built into the framework, then you need to provide an ITraceWriter implementation.

To trace your own code, using Trace.WriteLine is fine. But if you decide later to use another tracing library (like NLog) then you would need to change all of those trace calls.

]]>Comment Posted by MEberhttp://asp.net/web-api/overview/testing-and-debugging/tracing-in-aspnet-web-apiThu, 13 Sep 2012 13:14:23 GMT00000000-0000-0000-0000000016432Mike -- actually when it comes to debugging services there is no substitute to walking through your code in debug mode!

]]>Comment Posted by joshnoe23http://asp.net/web-api/overview/testing-and-debugging/tracing-in-aspnet-web-apiMon, 18 Feb 2013 14:38:29 GMT00000000-0000-0000-0000000018447How about for logging errors? Would this be overkill since you can just handle all uncaught errors in the ExceptionFilterAttribute, or does Implementing ITraceWriter still provide some benefit?

]]>Comment Posted by acohen-tempworkshttp://asp.net/web-api/overview/testing-and-debugging/tracing-in-aspnet-web-apiWed, 27 Feb 2013 14:38:06 GMT00000000-0000-0000-0000000018536When deployed in RELEASE mode, this does not work. I have an ITraceWriter implementation that uses NLog to write to log files. This works locally in DEBUG mode.

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