In the ideal world, every application and component would be
a black box that would work perfectly the first time, and that would fulfill
its purpose without any need for human intervention or review. In practice, this ideal is rarely achieved.
Real world applications need to be instrumented - meaning that there need to be ways for them to
report on how they are working. [ Available in PDF Format for $10 / Download ]

The .NET framework includes powerful diagnostic tools that can be used to implement effective
and highly configurable instrumentation for any application or component.
The .NET documentation does cover the classes involved, but not in the kind of depth
that the subject deserves, and it does not offer any real insight into the design patterns
supported by those classes.

This ebook is intended to fill that gap and teach you both the concepts and detailed information needed to
take full advantage of the tracing and logging capabilities that are built into .NET. Beginners will learn
the importance of instrumentation and basic tracing and logging techniques. Advanced readers will learn
sophisticated techniques including tracing directly into a database or creating custom trace listeners
such as one that directly Emails trace or log information to a specified destination.
Sample code is provided in VB.Net and C#.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Instrumenting Applications and Components
• Implementing Tracing and Logging with .NET
• Advanced Techniques and Design Patterns
• Conclusion