.NET tracing in PowerShell without creating .config file
Just enabling the default trace sources (Trace.Information
etc.) in code (and therefore in Powershell) is relatively easy.
Doing so for the System.Net
trace sources is more complicated because they are not publicly accessible.
I have previously seen that in C#, calling a System.Net
method e.g. Dns.Resolve
was necessary in order to get the TraceSource
to be created but this doesn't seem to be needed in Powershell.
So not a great solution... but it depends what your alternatives are I guess:
$id = [Environment]::TickCount;
$fileName = "${PSScriptRoot}\Powershell_log_${id}.txt"
$listener1 = [System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener]::New($fileName, "text_listener")
$listener2 = [System.Diagnostics.ConsoleTraceListener]::New()
$listener2.Name = "console_listener"
[System.Diagnostics.Trace]::AutoFlush = $true
[System.Diagnostics.Trace]::Listeners.Add($listener1) | out-null
[System.Diagnostics.Trace]::Listeners.Add($listener2) | out-null
# Use reflection to enable and hook up the TraceSource
$logging = [System.Net.Sockets.Socket].Assembly.GetType("System.Net.Logging")
$flags = [System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::NonPublic -bor [System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::Static
$logging.GetField("s_LoggingEnabled", $flags).SetValue($null, $true)
$webTracing = $logging.GetProperty("Web", $flags);
$webTraceSource = [System.Diagnostics.Tracesource]$webTracing.GetValue($null, $null);
$webTraceSource.Switch.Level = [System.Diagnostics.SourceLevels]::Information
$webTracesource.Listeners.Add($listener1) | out-null
$webTracesource.Listeners.Add($listener2) | out-null
[System.Diagnostics.Trace]::TraceInformation("About to do net stuff");
[System.Net.FtpWebRequest]::Create("ftp://www.google.com") | out-null
[System.Diagnostics.Trace]::TraceInformation("Finished doing net stuff");
#get rid of the listeners
[System.Diagnostics.Trace]::Listeners.Clear();
$webTraceSource.Listeners.Clear();
$listener1.Dispose();
$listener2.Dispose();