Tracing with System.Net

In my old blog, I had written a config file that shows how to enable trace logging for System.Net. Since it is useful, here is the config file again..

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
	<configuration>
	<system.diagnostics>
	<trace autoflush="true" />
	<sources>
	<source name="System.Net">
	<listeners>
	<add name="System.Net"/>
	</listeners>
	</source>
	<source name="System.Net.Sockets">
	<listeners>
	<add name="System.Net"/>
	</listeners>
	</source>
	<source name="System.Net.Cache">
	<listeners>
	<add name="System.Net"/>
	</listeners>
	</source>
	</sources>
	<sharedListeners>
	<add
	name="System.Net"
	type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener"
	initializeData="System.Net.trace.log"
	/>
	</sharedListeners>
	<switches>
	<add name="System.Net" value="Verbose" />
	<add name="System.Net.Sockets" value="Verbose" />
	<add name="System.Net.Cache" value="Verbose" />
	</switches>
	</system.diagnostics>
	</configuration>

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NOTE: If you are doing logging inside of the ASP.NET process, make sure to give the ASP.NET process identity WRITE permissions to the directory where you want the log to be written.