Microsoft® Visual C#® .NET 2003 Unleashed

Summary

In this chapter, you explored the different methods of instrumenting your applications. In the first section, you learned both the benefits and limitations of using the Windows event log. Next you saw how to add debug and trace statements for a peek into how your application is performing. Then you saw the power and flexibility of instrumenting your application through the Windows Management Instrumentation API. Finally, you got a peek into the Enterprise Instrumentation Framework and how you could use it to leverage all three methods of instrumentation that you learned in this chapter.