ASP.NET MVC Tracing Issues

Question

Question

How do I get ASP.NET MVC trace information to be consistent for in-page trace output as trace.axd? I may just be missing something obvious, please call it out

Answer 1

You could try to use Html.Action to get the controller to do the tracing for you. For example, if you need to trace the error from the default Error view, you can use

Html.Action("TraceError", "Error", new { ControllerName = Model.ControllerName, ActionName = Model.ActionName, Exception = Model.Exception })

Then inside your Error Controller, implement the method

public ActionResult TraceError(String ControllerName, String ActionName, Exception Exception)
{
    System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceError("Error Message: {0}", Exception.Message);
    // Other tracing statements
}