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Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 1 - Simple Ways Providing Information for Tracing

by Maxim Kartavenkov

The series of articles covers most aspects of logging and tracing mechanisms which can be embedded into your application. It discusses simple ways of tracing and also new tracing technologies which were involved in Windows 10.

Debugging Live Systems

by Greg Utas

No breakpoints or drooling all over the console!

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 2 - Simple Ways Tracing in the Kernel Mode

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Discussion of simple ways of tracing and also new tracing technologies involved in Windows 10

Collect .NET Applications Traces with sysinternals Tools

by Sebastian Solnica

How you may noninvasively trace .NET applications with sysinternals tools

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Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 4 - Saving Log

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Discussion of how to organize saving application trace helper information.

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 3 - User Mode Handles in the Kernel

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Continue discussion of the simple kernel drivers tracing mechanisms by using output information into the handles of the files pipes and console passed to the driver from the host application.

Using Decorators to Instrument Python Code with OpenTelemetry Traces

by Digma.ai

Python decorators can help keep OpenTelemetry tracing instrumentation DRY

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 2 - Simple Ways Tracing in the Kernel Mode

by Maxim Kartavenkov

Discussion of simple ways of tracing and also new tracing technologies involved in Windows 10

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Tracing

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 1 - Simple Ways Providing Information for Tracing

18 May 2023 by Maxim Kartavenkov

The series of articles covers most aspects of logging and tracing mechanisms which can be embedded into your application. It discusses simple ways of tracing and also new tracing technologies which were involved in Windows 10.

Debugging Live Systems

10 Mar 2022 by Greg Utas

No breakpoints or drooling all over the console!

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 2 - Simple Ways Tracing in the Kernel Mode

15 Jun 2023 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Discussion of simple ways of tracing and also new tracing technologies involved in Windows 10

China post tracking

26 Jan 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

You need to know the following minimum: HTML (XHML), Javascript (very likely also Ajax) plus at least one of server-side technologies and supporting HTTP server modules.Viable examples of server-side technologies include ASP.NET (you need IIS or maybe Apache with mod_mono), Python with WSGI,...

Collect .NET Applications Traces with sysinternals Tools

30 Jul 2014 by Sebastian Solnica

How you may noninvasively trace .NET applications with sysinternals tools

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 3 - User Mode Handles in the Kernel

5 Jul 2023 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Continue discussion of the simple kernel drivers tracing mechanisms by using output information into the handles of the files pipes and console passed to the driver from the host application.

Diagnosing ADO.NET with ETW Traces

15 Sep 2012 by Sebastian Solnica

How to diagnose ADO.NET with ETW traces

HTTP Server Guide & How To Make One

24 Apr 2014 by idonotexistatall

How to make an HTTP Server and some documentation on server-side protocol

Application Pool Identity and Directory Security in IIS6

18 Aug 2012 by Sebastian Solnica

Application pool identity and directory security in IIS6

How to trace and understand the program?

3 Jul 2014 by CPallini

You have to become yourself a debugger (instead of a compiler).That is: note all the variable and update their values after executing every instruction. At first it is a clumsy activity, but after while you are going to follow mentally such a procedure (and able to skip unnecessary update steps).

How to trace and understand the program?

3 Jul 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

I have a different advice: don't use so much effort to understand programs written by other people. This is programming. Try not wasting your time on that. Understanding comes when you write code; and the ability to read code well comes much later, at least in most of the beginners. Indeed, why...

How to use common trace id?

19 Jul 2016 by G3Coder

The quickest would be to instantiate your Guid outside of your methods and re-use it. I suggest some more reading on the basics though. Since your update includes mention of a different clients you need to provide more detail of the system. Maybe you could pass the Guid around through the...

DiagnosticsTextBox: Log Window for WinForms

25 Jun 2020 by Code Artist

A reusable Windows Form text box control for capturing DEBUG and TRACE output

Tracing and Logging Technologies on Windows. Part 4 - Saving Log

18 Aug 2023 by Maxim Kartavenkov

Discussion of how to organize saving application trace helper information.

Finding the origin of an exception

17 Aug 2010 by Niklas L

In the Debug | Exceptions dialog, you can specify how exceptions should be treated by the debugger. You can chose to break into the debugger when a specific exception is thrown.So if you know what type to look for, that could be one way of doing it.

A Managed ETW Provider and the 15002 Error

16 Mar 2012 by Sebastian Solnica

A managed ETW provider and the 15002 error

Trace Method Calls in a Python App

2 Apr 2014 by schollii

Recipe for reverse engineering function calls in a Python app

Trying to write traceroute using raw socket getting endless loop

14 Aug 2017 by Jochen Arndt

You are not enumerating the existing network interfaces but use only the first returned by getifaddrs(). You should check if that is an existing INET IPv4 interface and not something else or the loopback interface. You are also passing ifa->ifa_name to inet_pton(). But that is the name of the...

How to know which event fires from start of windows form running visual studio 2015

11 Sep 2018 by CHill60

The Microsoft Documentation has an article specifically on the order of events - Order of Events in Windows Forms | Microsoft Docs[^] EDIT after OP comment One way to track the order of events in controls or objects is to log them - you will need to use the IDE to generate the code stub for...

Finding the origin of an exception

17 Aug 2010 by tiwas

Hi all,I'm trying to make sense out of some old junk I've got thrown into my lap. The problem with this code is that it seems like the original dev just threw in a try/catch wherever the code failed, and it's just impossible to find where some of these exceptions occurred. Is there any way...

Can event viewer in Windows 2000 consume ETW trace

1 Nov 2010 by rageshctech

I think in Windows 2000 the events logged are in binary format as compared to the XML format in Windows Vista. I want to know whether its possible for the event viewer in Windows 2000 to consume the events from ETW Trace in real-time! I seriously doubt whether that functionality is made...

Template Matching using correlation in matlab

16 Apr 2011 by radhikamody

I am making a camera mouse software. Real time video is processed to track movement of the feature and translate to the mouse movement.A search window technique is bing used. A template matching using correlation is the technique applied. Its coded in matlab.What happens is the code...

Template Matching using correlation in matlab

16 Apr 2011 by Albert Holguin

don't forget that correlation depends on the current state of the input data and a number of frames of old data (depending on correlation size), with recorded data, you have the present, past, and future data all available. in real-time you only have present data, make sure you have enough old...

Template Matching using correlation in matlab

17 Apr 2011 by radhikamody

i did not quite get what u are saying.the template is static. does not change. we need to find that template in subsequent frames.It works very precisely with a prerecorded video.Is it to with the correlation formula itself?Im attaching the code here. trial2.m (for taking...

iOS simulate Application and log events

28 Dec 2011 by Member 8522998

I want to install and simulate iOS applications and find their malware intentions. See if connects to an IP address, downloads something, API call logs and soo on... kind of everything it does on the system. Does iOS Simulator log this events, or is there any online project that does that. If...

iOS simulate Application and log events

28 Dec 2011 by TRK3

You can easily track internet activity with any sort of packet sniffing tool. Here's a link to one way to do it:http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/06/sniff-your-iphones-network-traffic/[^]If all you have is the iOS application itself, you won't be able to run it on the iPhone "simulator"...

tracing is not working in web application

21 May 2012 by Rakhesh Rajan

I had a asp.net website.I changed it to web application for resolving some issues.After this code is never going to "Trace.WriteIf".When i am running(debug mode) it is skipping this line and going to next line.If i am running this throw immediate window, it is working fine.Data is getting...

Can event viewer in Windows 2000 consume ETW trace

1 Jun 2012 by mohammad zahmatkesh kenari

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sergeim/archive/2008/06/06/prepare-vm-programmatically-add-iso-hyper-v-c-version.aspx[^]

Using MySQL database to save .NET traces

6 Jun 2012 by Sebastian Solnica

How to configure the SqlDatabaseTraceListener to work with a MySQL database.

trace.axd is not working

5 Aug 2012 by Prafulla Sahu

localhost/Praf...

How to track user activity on website

23 Apr 2013 by Mjs Martin

We want to track all visitor activities for logged users so we can get better insight into visitor behavior and gather more data for each individual user. What options are available for something like this that does not require us to add code to every single website page? Are there some...

How to track user activity on website

24 Apr 2013 by JoshSIM

You can add tracking code only to your master pages but I suggest creating a custom http module. It requirerequires more skill. You can start here:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms227673(v=vs.100).aspx[^]

Incomplete stacks using StackWalk64 than visualstudio

29 Jul 2013 by mr.dot

I built test.exe which will crash and generate .dmp file using MinidumpWriteDump, and parser.exe is used to read and print information from that dmp file.In parser.exe I use StackWalk64 to get all stack traces of all threads in that dmp file. But now I found that I can only get less stacks...

ASP.NET Tracing

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

Tracing is a feature that helps you trace and monitor the execution of your Web pages. The following links explain more about this feature: Tracing

Tracing for an ASP.net application

11 Oct 2013 by ASP.NET Community

ASP.net offers a built-in functionality for tracing theapplication. Using this functionality one can view a lot ofdiagnostic

track a vehicle using gps

20 Nov 2013 by srikanthenjamoori

Hello,I have to develop a java web-application(academic project) .In that I would like to provide a module where a vehicle can be tracked i.e vahicl has to be shown on google map.I need help like.....>How to use google maps in my project.>how to get a particular vehicle which i want to...

How to save TraceListner Write Log In Csv File In Hebrew Language

16 May 2014 by posh_BalrajS

I am logging in my WPF application using TextWriterTraceListener. The file is stored in csv format. I am writing text in hebrew language. The problem is that when I open that csv file in MS Excel it open as shown in picture below which is not correct. But when i save the file again as UTF8...

C++ application Tracing tools/API

3 Jun 2015 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Such software is the part of most C++ tools working with IDEs. For more advanced tools, please see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3265999/tool-for-tracing-c-program-execution[^].Many tools are proprietary.See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_performance_analysis_tools[^].—SA

Finch robot tracing object problem

26 Feb 2016 by Member 12351379

I am writing a program where I have to make my finch robot follow an object. I have written it so that the finch will begin by sensing objects around it once it has been tapped on the top. As soon as I tap the top and cover the sensors, a red light is supposed to turn on and it will follow the...

Finch robot tracing object problem

25 Feb 2016 by Raj Champaneriya

Hello,I have not worked with Finch but I have little experience in programming. So I have refactored your code a little bit to make it readable and added few TODO comments. This may help you.import edu.cmu.ri.createlab.terk.robot.finch.Finch;public class FollowAnObjectSolution...

ASMX vs WCF tracing

8 Nov 2016 by H.AL

I am trying to create logging files for my .asmx soap webservice as it is suggested in this link Enabling Tracing in ASP.NET Web Services[^]. But I could not understand the log file created. In other words, tracing method for WCF creates 2 files: messages.svclog and tracing.svclog, and when...

Trying to write traceroute using raw socket getting endless loop

15 Aug 2017 by P1ll0wTh13f

I'm trying to write a very simple version of the traceroute program using raw sockets and ICMP. But when I run it i just always get an endless loop of echo requests by myself back. #include #include #include #include...

Trying to write traceroute using raw socket getting endless loop

15 Aug 2017 by P1ll0wTh13f

for some reason the inet_ntoa(serverAddr.sin_addr) i used in printing rewrote the dest address to the one i got as source from icmp. Now it works tho.

Hooking Linux Kernel Functions, Part 3: What Are the Main Pros and Cons of Ftrace?

17 Jan 2019 by Apriorit Inc

In this article, we focus on the main ftrace pros and cons and describe some unexpected surprises we’ve faced when hooking Linux kernel functions with this utility.

Vehicle tracking module in transportation

11 Jun 2022 by OriginalGriff

While we are more than willing to help those that are stuck, that doesn't mean that we are here to do it all for you! We can't do all the work, you are either getting paid for this, or it's part of your grades and it wouldn't be at all fair for...

Vehicle tracking module in transportation

11 Jun 2022 by RickZeeland

Maybe you can use one of these GitHub solutions: vehicle-tracking · GitHub Topics[^]

How do I read and fix a compiler assertion warning ?

15 Nov 2022 by Member 15627495

Hello Helpers ! I'm facing a 'warning' when I compile, but I don't understand the messages in the debug box, see below : com\oleaut32\stdtypes\pictobj.cpp(3103)\ole32.dll!00007FFB26BE4EB6: (caller: 00007FFB26BE59D2) LogHr(1) tid(29f8) 8007029C...

.NET-Compiler-Platform

How do I read and fix a compiler assertion warning ?

15 Nov 2022 by OriginalGriff

Assertions are elements you added to your code to stop execution when an error is detected: Assert method (Visual Basic for Applications) | Microsoft Learn[^] If you are running under the debugger - and you should be, for testing - then the...

.NET-Compiler-Platform

Using Decorators to Instrument Python Code with OpenTelemetry Traces

4 Jul 2023 by Digma.ai

Python decorators can help keep OpenTelemetry tracing instrumentation DRY

WCF Service Performance Monitoring using “Perfmon”

31 Jul 2012 by Milan Raval

This article explain how to use Windows "Perfmon" to monitor WCF service performance.

Tracing with Code Injection

29 Aug 2012 by Girish J Jain

Next level of tracing, which uses code injection to insert tracing calls in method body

Timeouts When Making Web Requests in .NET

8 Mar 2015 by Sebastian Solnica

Timeouts when making web requests in .NET

Real-time Tracing With SQL Server Express

11 Jun 2014 by Pete_H

This tip explains how to do tracing with SQL Server Express using a desktop application written in C#, .NET 4.

Advanced Tracing

29 Aug 2012 by Girish J Jain

This article shows how easy it is to get information from a .NET application at runtime and how you can store it in a destination of your choice, database in this case.

Dumping .NET Classes to Debug Output

22 Apr 2010 by Alexei Shamov

Class to convert .NET classes into readable debug output with less effort

Application Design - A Bad Day With Adapter Pattern and Log4Net

6 May 2017 by Habibur Rony

This topic will cover the concept of the adapter pattern & how to implement logger using log4net. It will also cover what’s adapter pattern, why need, where & when to use; what’s Log4Net, implementation of logger using adapter pattern, how to implement and add custom SMTP appender & configuration.

ASP.NET Health Monitoring

13 Jul 2012 by Sebastian Solnica

ASP.NET Health Monitoring

Fast and easy memory leak detection

27 Jul 2011 by Octopod

An easy way to trap all the memory leaks of your application.

Tracing (Debugging) Tools for Web / Network Applications

11 Dec 2010 by rahul.kulshreshtha

Few handy tools while developing

web_development

Grouping Application Traces using ActivityId (System.Diagnostics)

31 May 2012 by Sebastian Solnica

I don't need to stress how tracing (logging) is important in any application. Without logs, we are often unable to diagnose the cause of the failure. Logs also help us to track the application behavior and usage over time.

Ray Tracing

28 Jul 2021 by aroman

A ray tracing project

BaseLib.Tracer: Tracing Done Right

31 Mar 2023 by Peter Huber SG

Near real time, multi threading safe tracing for any .NET technology

LowLevelDesign.NLog.Ext and ETW targets for NLog

18 Apr 2014 by Sebastian Solnica

LowLevelDesign.NLog.Ext and ETW targets for NLog

Easy and fast way of analysis (reverse-engineering) of any CMS or framework on PHP

23 Jul 2013 by Кирилл Терентьев

Experiment

web_development

Configuring ASP.NET Authentication Log

20 Nov 2013 by Sebastian Solnica

How to configure ASP.NET authentication log

My Experiences with the 'Sys is undefined' Javascript error

17 Aug 2012 by Abey Thomas

This is an issue which can happen for a variety of reasons - but how do you find the right one?

Fast and easy memory leak detection

26 Jan 2012 by Lakamraju Raghuram

For Visual Studio IDE we can detect leaks by using CRT debugger functions#define _CRTDBG_MAP_ALLOC#include #include void main(){ // ...... // ...... _CrtDumpMemoryLeaks();}This will dump leaks if any to the Output window. Check this link :...

How to trace and understand the program?

3 Jul 2014 by GwapoKho

Every time I see a program I really want to know how it works. For examplethe... for(x=0; x

China post tracking

26 Jan 2011 by make_guide

Hello,I would like to build a site like this one: China Post Trackingdo I need to know JavaScript? or html? Can I add usps and ems? and more tracking options in java? Right now I know some php. I built this site: How To Make Out[^]Like it ?

Otel custom receiver error: error decoding 'receivers': unknown type:

20 Mar 2024 by umang mundhra

>I am trying to make a custom receiver that will Collect and receive traces from applications and store it in MySQL database.(An alternative to zipkin). Later on will work on exporting them when asked. So for my custom receiver this is the code...

Finding the origin of an exception

17 Aug 2010 by tiwas

Thanks - will try that next time something crops up :)

track a vehicle using gps

20 Nov 2013 by SnehasishN

Please read the article with similar discussion.Integrating-Vehicle-Tracking-GPS-device[^]Hope it will give you more clear idea

How to use common trace id?

19 Jul 2016 by tnkarthi

I want to use common trace id. I'm using following code. public void method1(){ using (new Tracer(Guid.NewGuid().ToString())) { //my code } } public void method2(){ using (new Tracer(Guid.NewGuid().ToString())) { //my code ...

How to know which event fires from start of windows form running visual studio 2015

11 Sep 2018 by ahmed_sa

Problem How to know which events fires from start of windows form running like load then textchanged etc.... . I have some variables on load of form . these variables have override to it . but i dont know on which place or event fires after load this windows form is very big coding lines ...

Vehicle tracking module in transportation

11 Jun 2022 by Devendra Sarang

I am working on one "transportation software" ( windows forms application ) in which i have to develop vehicle tracking module. I have no idea how to do this. so anyone can guide me from where i can start it ? Any paid third-party service is...