Diagnostic Tracing is a way to find out the details of what Vantage does when performing a variety of actions such as importing logs, generating a report, and so on. Sometimes an error may occur during these actions, and the error presented to the user can often be cryptic and meaningless. Tracing shows the steps that led up to an error, and shows more detail about the error itself than the dialog presented to the user.
To enable tracing in Vantage, create the file “WebSpy.Vantage.exe.config” alongside the Vantage executable (usually found in C:\Program Files\WebSpy\Vantage (edition) (version)\) with the following contents;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <appSettings> <add key="synopsisCallStack" value="true" /> <add key="traceLog" value="true" /> </appSettings> <system.diagnostics> <switches> <add name="LogOutput" value="4" /> </switches> </system.diagnostics> </configuration>
After creating the file, restart Vantage. A trace log will be created in your local application data folder;
XP; C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\WebSpy\Vantage (edition)\(build)\trace.log
Vista; C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\WebSpy\Vantage (edition)\(build)\trace.log
The trace log shows the list of steps performed, and the details of any errors encountered. This information is useful to WebSpy when diagnosing errors reported by users.
| Date Posted: | Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 at 7:18 am |
| Author: | Luke Arnold |
| Categories: | How To, Vantage, WebSpy |
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config, debug, diagnostic, error, logging, logs, tracing, Vantage, WebSpy |
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