ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Api: Diagnostic features

Question

I'm searching for a feature to enable loggin/tracing in ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Api. In WCF you can activate logging and WCF writes that it is doing. Then, I can open the dump and search for errors.

I do not want to trace my web api but log that the framework is doing. If i trace/log the web api with message handlers I get no information if an error occures before my implementation.

Answer 1

See http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/testing-and-debugging/tracing-in-aspnet-web-api

If you provide an ITraceWriter implementation (which can be as simple as calling System.Diagnostics.Trace), the web API framework will trace what it does.

• Mike