WebSpy Blog» tracing – WebSpy Blog http://www.webspy.com.au/blogs For when WebSpyrians have something to say. Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:18:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Diagnostic Tracing in Vantage http://www.webspy.com.au/blogs/index.php/diagnostic-tracing-in-vantage/ http://www.webspy.com.au/blogs/index.php/diagnostic-tracing-in-vantage/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:18:46 +0000 Luke Arnold http://www.webspy.com.au/blogs/?p=152 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.

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