Problem with loading app.config

[DoB]

Hi,

I was trying to configure the Trace class using the app.config. I was
followig the example configurations in the MSDN.
However, as I debug the program, the Trace class seems to ignore the
configuration. For example - it has its default and only listener while I
removed it and added some other listeners in a config file.

Am I missing something? Is any explicit call needed to load the trace
configuration part?

DoB

[Peter K]

"DoB" <Do*@dob.comwrote in news:uR**************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:

Hi,

I was trying to configure the Trace class using the app.config. I was
followig the example configurations in the MSDN.
However, as I debug the program, the Trace class seems to ignore the
configuration. For example - it has its default and only listener
while I removed it and added some other listeners in a config file.

Am I missing something? Is any explicit call needed to load the trace
configuration part?

Hi - I think you need to be aware that "app.config" is not the real name of
the configuration file your program uses (at least as far as I have seen).
This might be the name you see in Visual Studio, but when you compile the
file is automatically renamed to something like
"application_name.exe.config".

So check this file exists and is in the right place.

/Peter

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<configuration>
<system.diagnostics>
<switches>
<add name="DemoApp.Switch" value="Information"/>
</switches>
<trace autoflush="true" indentsize="5">
<listeners>
<add name="DemoListener" type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener"
initializeData="output.xml" />
<remove name="Default" />

<add name="DemoListener"
type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener"
initializeData="output.txt" />
<remove name="Default" />
<add name="DemoListener"
type="System.Diagnostics.DelimitedListTraceListene r"
delimiter="|"
initializeData="C:\\output.txt"/>
<remove name="Default" />

</listeners>
</trace>

</system.diagnostics>
</configuration>
i have different listener u can use it according to uer convience
"DoB" wrote:

Hi,

I was trying to configure the Trace class using the app.config. I was
followig the example configurations in the MSDN.
However, as I debug the program, the Trace class seems to ignore the
configuration. For example - it has its default and only listener while I
removed it and added some other listeners in a config file.

Am I missing something? Is any explicit call needed to load the trace
configuration part?

DoB

[DoB]

OK. Solved.
It was actually loading, but the configuration was incorrect :-)
Sorry for troubling.

DoB