making .NET 2.0 tracefiles readable/parsable

[Robert Ludig]

I have two questions regarding parsing and reading tracefiles:

1. Is there a tool that can read logfiles that were generated by the
..NET 2.0 tracing and presents the data in a human readable form?
Preferably with some searching, sorting and filtering options?

2. How can make the trace output to be written in XML format so that it
is easier to parse?

 

[Chris Fulstow]

I don't think there's any built-in way to do this, but you can build
your own trace listener that will output trace information in a custom
XML format, see here for more info:

http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020910.htm
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.tracelistener.aspx

 

[bonk]

well there is XmlWriterTraceListener, looks like it is what I was
looking for.

 

[Chris Fulstow]

Looks perfect - hadn't seen that one

well there is XmlWriterTraceListener, looks like it is what I was
looking for.