Debugging Stack Trace

Bob Golding and David Butler

MSDN Magazine February 2009

Bob Golding and David Butler

MSDN Magazine February 2009

i am using belowcode in web.config 

<loggingConfiguration name="" tracingEnabled="true" defaultCategory="General">
    <listeners>
      <add name="Rolling Flat File Trace Listener" type="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.TraceListeners.RollingFlatFileTraceListener, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging, Version=5.0.414.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" listenerDataType="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.Configuration.RollingFlatFileTraceListenerData, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging, Version=5.0.414.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" fileName=".\Logs\jeejix_error.log" footer="------------Error End----------------------------" formatter="Text Formatter" header="---------Error Start-------------------------------" rollFileExistsBehavior="Increment" rollInterval="Day" rollSizeKB="50" />
    </listeners>
    <formatters>
      <add type="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging.Formatters.TextFormatter, Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Logging, Version=5.0.414.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken

//when this #define is commented out, the methodsA-D don't
// have a side effect (setting a static variable),
// and this seems to cause the 64 bit stack traces to differ.
//#define methods_have_side_effects

using System;
using System.Reflection;

namespace StackTraceTest
{
    public class Program
    {
        public static int some_side_effect;

        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("-------------begin------------------");
            try{ methodA(); }
            catch(Exception e)
            { Console.WriteLine(e + e.StackTrace); }
            Console.WriteLine("--------------end-----------------");

            Console.WriteLine("-------------begin------------------");
            try
            {
                Type t = Type.GetType("StackTraceTest.Program");
                t.GetMethod("methodA", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public).Invoke(null, new object[] { });
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            { Console.WriteLine(e + e.StackTrace); }
            Console.WriteLine("--------------

Hello,

When I am implementing my own custom channel for .net remote object calls, I cannot get full stack trace on exceptions from the server.

Problem description:

I have a server with the following remote class:

 public class MyClassRemote : MarshalByRefObject   
{    
 public string GetServerString()       
 {                        throw new NullReferenceException("my exception");           
 return "sample message";        
 }    
}

at start up, the server has the following initialization code:

RemotingConfiguration.CustomErrorsMode = CustomErrorsModes.Off;
MyChannel myChannel = new MyChannel(myChannelSettings);
ChannelServices.RegisterChannel(myChannel, false);
RemotingConfiguration.RegisterWellKnownServiceType(typeof(MyClassRemote), typeof(MyClassRemote).FullName, WellKnownObjectMode.SingleCall);
Note: Keep in mind that I did set CustomErrorsMode.Off on the server side. So, I should get all the

 Hello,

I have the following code:

'Page_Load on ChooseTime_aspx

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load

        If Not (Page.IsPostBack) Then
            If Session("orderfortoday") = 0 Then
                Button_today.Visible = False

            End If

            Panel_SuccessfulOrder.Visible = False
            Panel_EmailConfirm.Visible = False
            Panel_EmailInput.Visible = False

            Dim skipWeekend1 As DateTime = SkipWeekendDay1()
            Dim skipWeekend2 As DateTime = SkipWeekendDay2()
            Session("Day1_AvoidWeekends") = skipWeekend1.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")
         &nb

Hi,

I am facing one issue while using trace.log file for logging the exceptions. I need to get the stack trace with other exception information. But stack trace is not available with provide enterprise library 5.0 exception logging template. Is there any way I can add this.

Also I want to genrate seprate trace.log file for every day.

Thanks

Trying to remote debug ASP website from VS2010 Pro to Windows Server 2003 machine.  Specifically, trying to debug a Web Service, but breakpoint says, "The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document."  This happens for all compiled code though.  I have read this is due to missing PDB files and the work around is to manually copy them, as noted here.  Problem is, I cannot find any PDB files for my project, except referenced libraries, which I can remote debug.

Verified

• web.config has <compilation debug="true">
• Debugger is attached to wewp.exe process on remote server
• Installed VS2010 remote debugger from DVD (as I can remote debug referenced libraries)

This is beyond frustrating.  I migrated my code from VS2008 .Net3.5 to VS2010 .Net4.0 to take advantage of the inherent multithreading framework.  Debugging works when using local host and was stable until deployment to test server.

Thanks in advance,

Anthony

Hi,

I have some nested tracers. The outer one has a category of 'PageTrace' and the inner ones have categories of 'DBTrace'. When I set the outer category source to 'All' I get both traces. When I switch on the inner trace, I just get the inner trace.

So, my question: is there any way to just log the outer trace events, i.e. the Page Traces.

Cheers,

James

Hi all,

I'm new to HttpHandlers.  I am writing an HttpHandler that reads uploaded files directly from the request stream to provide progress that can be queried using an AJAX request.  For large files, this seems to be faster than having ASP.NET load the file contents into Request.Files and then streaming the file from there to wherever it goes (Linq to SQL into a VARBINARY column in an SQL Server database.)

My HttpHandler works perfectly when I'm debugging using the Visual Studio Development Server, but doesn't work otherwise.  The application pool for this application in IIS 7 is set to run in Classic Mode, and the Handler Mappings screen in IIS says that I must manage managed handlers in system.web/httpHandlers. 

I set up in my applications Web.config file.

<add verb="GET,POST" path="*.upload" type="Namespace.For.UploadHandler, AssemblyForUploadHandler"/>

It works great, so long as I don't debug with the "Use Local IIS Web server" option.

What else do I need to do to get this to work?

Thanks!

Hi,

I'm finished with a part of my ASHX handler and need to test it against the software that'll be calling it using HTTP POST. The software required an https url so I created an internally hosted site in IIS and published the project there. 

Question now is how do I do any debugging on the script to see what data is coming out of it before the data goes back into the software that's calling it? Do I set something on the project itself to be able to step into the published DLL? 

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