This is the last part of the 3 part diagnostics series. This part will introduce you to a little helper utility that I wrote to make configuring the diagnostics and tracing options a lot simpler and more accessible. As discussed in the previous two blog posts in this series: Diagnosing Problems and Event Monitor everything is controlled from the Registry. Enabling and disabling tracing, the event monitor and determining what and where to trace to, all of this is controlled by Registry settings.
Hence the reason why created a small HTML Application that will allow you set change the settings through a simply user interface.
The end result looks like this:
You can download this utility from: http://dbproj.com/Downloads/Tracing.aspx
The tools is a simple .HTA file, simply launch the .HTA file and it will start a web browser session with the UI shown above.
NOTE: Make sure to restart Visual Studio after you made change to your trace settings!
This concludes the 3 part diagnostics series, I hope this was useful.