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Anyone knows the difference between System.Diagnostic.Trace and System.Diagnostic.TraceSource classes?
I've been using Trace for most of my projects and I just happen to found out about TraceSource the other day. They seems to offer similar API, is one better than the other?
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TraceSource provides tracing methods that allow you to easily trace events, trace data, and issue informational traces. In . NET Framework apps, trace output from TraceSource can be controlled by configuration file settings.
Tracing helps you isolate problems and fix them without disturbing a running system. This class provides methods to display an Assert dialog box, and to emit an assertion that will always Fail. This class provides write methods in the following variations: Write.
TraceSource is the newer version (since .NET 2) and Trace is the older version, more info is available here:
Clarification on TraceSource/Trace
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