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30 Aug 2003 Rate this: Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This
article takes a look at the Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation
Framework and details how shortcomings of conventional
instrumentation techniques are overcome using this framework
It is needless to say that Tracing and Instrumentation are a
very important facet of any application. The term
Instrumentation refers to the ability to monitor or measure the
level of a product's performance and to diagnose errors. In
terms of programming this may relate to code tracing, debugging
techniques, performance counters, event logs and so on (MSDN).
The .NET framework includes the Trace and the Debug classes
which provide the above mentioned aspects of instrumentation and
have been very valuable to application development.
Unfortunately, these classes have various shortcomings, which
does not make them viable for certain situations o