Sony Arouje

Whenever I write any WCF service, I need to search in my snippets to find out the configuration to add Diagnostic traces for WCF. This post help me to pick the configuration any time when ever I need it.

  <system.diagnostics>
    <sources>
      <source name="System.ServiceModel"
              switchValue="Information, ActivityTracing"
              propagateActivity="true">
        <listeners>
          <add name="traceListener"
              type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener"
              initializeData= "F:\Sony\Traces.svclog" />
        </listeners>
      </source>
    </sources>
  </system.diagnostics>

Adding this configuration allows the WCF to log all the communication between the client and host in xml format. You can view svclog using SvcTraceViewer.exe, it shipped with Visual Studio and can found out in WCF installation location (C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin)