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Capturing user information

Hi, I have written several Windows based applications and I have always had
an "application log" which captures username, machinename etc. As I now
turn to web based applications I would like to capture any similar
information, either server side programming or client side, and log it.

My question is, what can you capture and how do you best capture it?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Nov 18 '05 #1
3 1020
IIS should be able to log all of that information for you. Just turn on
logging for that web site. Otherwise, if you want a more custom solution,
check the Request.ServerVariables Collection, which will return all of the
information you requested and more. See:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...om_reqocsv.asp

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

"Greg Smith" <gj*@umn.edu> wrote in message
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Hi, I have written several Windows based applications and I have always had an "application log" which captures username, machinename etc. As I now
turn to web based applications I would like to capture any similar
information, either server side programming or client side, and log it.

My question is, what can you capture and how do you best capture it?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Nov 18 '05 #2
In addition to Kevin's suggestions, you could setup a table or two in your
database to store this data for ease of reporting. For example, create a
stored procedure that will insert information like:

1. current user
2. time stamp
3. current page
4. report displayed
5. criteria used for the report
6. some special feature (button) used
7. Whatever else you can dream up

etc ...

Then create wrap this code in a single method or class to be reused whenver
you need it in your app.

HTH.

Mark

"Greg Smith" <gj*@umn.edu> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
Hi, I have written several Windows based applications and I have always had an "application log" which captures username, machinename etc. As I now
turn to web based applications I would like to capture any similar
information, either server side programming or client side, and log it.

My question is, what can you capture and how do you best capture it?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Nov 18 '05 #3
Hi Greg,
Have you had a chance to check out the preceding suggestions or have you
got any ideas on this issue? If you need any further help, please feel free
to post here.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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(This posting is provided "AS IS", with no warranties, and confers no
rights.)

Nov 18 '05 #4

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