trace-listener

I use TextWriterTraceListener ( System.Diagnostics ) in my application to trace several things like exceptions,... The application is running on a terminal server and if there are many users using it simultaneously the listener starts to create many tracefiles with random GUIDs in the filename. Are there possibilities or workarounds to avoid this behaviour ? I've just taken a look at the documentation for TextWriterTraceListener and there's a note about 1/3 of the way down the page If an attempt is made to write to a file that is in use or unavailable, the file name is automatically prefixed

I'm using TextWriterTraceListener to log diagnostics messages to a text file. However I wan't also to log a timestamp of every trace message added. Is it possible to define a kind of formatter for the listener that would automatically add timestamps? Currently I'm adding timestamps manually on every Trace.WriteLine() call but this isn't very comfortable. Jon Skeet I suggest you use Log4Net instead, which has a lot more customizability. Alternatively you could write your own TraceListener implementation which put the timestamps on for you. You may even be able just derive from

I have implemented a custom trace listener (derived from TextWriteTraceListener ) and now I would like to set my application to use it instead of standard TextWriteTraceListener . First I added default TextWriteTraceListener in order to make sure it works ok and it does. Here's my app.config: <configuration> <system.diagnostics> <trace autoflush="true" indentsize="4"> <listeners> <add name="TextListener" type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener" initializeData="trace.log" /> <remove name="Default" /> </listeners> </trace> </system.diagnostics> </configuration> Now my trace listener is