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Imran Azad
Imran Azad

Reputation: 1048

Service trace viewer for ordinary windows service

I have an ordinary C# windows service that crawls web pages and I am experiencing a similar issue to the issue described here: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host - WCF

Can I use the Service Trace Viewer Tool for an ordinary windows service (it's not wcf) or is there an alternative tracing utility I can use?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1604

Answers (1)

Mitch
Mitch

Reputation: 22251

Yes, you can add the listener by adding a system.diagnostics configuration section to your app.config. Add the following configuration section and point the log file to a writable path.

App.config:

<configuration>
  <!-- ... -->
  <system.diagnostics>
    <sources>
      <source name="System.ServiceModel" switchValue="Error" propagateActivity="true">
        <listeners>
          <add name="traceListener" type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener"
            initializeData="c:\drop\servicename wcferror.svclog"/>
        </listeners>
      </source>
    </sources>
    <trace autoflush="true"></trace>
  </system.diagnostics>
</configuration>

If you prefer to log to the event log, you can use System.Diagnostics.EventLogTraceListener in lieu of System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener. The initializeData is then the log name.

Upvotes: 4

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