I was tooling around in the documentation pertaining to the TraceListener class and I found that "..where no trace listeners are attached, trace messages are output using the OutputDebugString API..."
This got me thinking - an application that can receive these OutputDebugString messages can allow you to view the trace messages of an application without having to stop and restart it to add a trace listener.
To receive this output you need to attach to the running process as a debug...
This step-by-step article explains how to create a simple Visual Basic 6.0 application, and then upgrade the application to Visual Basic .NET or Visual Basic 2005 by using the Visual Basic Upgrade Wizard in Visual Studio .NET or in Visual Studio 2005....
This article describes how to use the Debug class and the Trace class. These classes are available in the Microsoft .NET Framework. You can use these classes to provide information about the performance of an application during application development, or after deployment to production. These classes are only one part of the instrumentation features that are available in the .NET Framework....
