Debug Window to External File

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The debug window is slowing me down severely, but all I want to see from it is the last few lines. I would like to not run the debug window and send the last 5 lines of the debug window to an external text file. Can someone please show me how to do this?

Posted 18-May-15 0:28am

computerpublic

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Andy Lanng · Answer 1 · 2015-05-18T01:43:00

Solution 1

C#

            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

            StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sb);

            TextWriterTraceListener myWriter = new TextWriterTraceListener(sw);

            Debug.Listeners.Add(myWriter);
//...


            string output = string.Join("\n",
                sb.ToString().Split('\n').Reverse().Take(5).Reverse());

The last line is likely to be empty so you may want to exclude empty rows from the set of rows in the stringbuilder.

Posted 18-May-15 1:43am

Andy Lanng

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computerpublic 18-May-15 17:13pm

I don't see where you named and created any external file?? How do you do this??

Andy Lanng 19-May-15 4:08am

Really!?!

I gave you gold. Writing to an external file from a string is SO common you can google it: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8bh11f1k.aspx

computerpublic 23-May-15 10:21am

I still cannot figure out how to complete what you wrote. I don't understand why you would write something incomplete.

Andy Lanng 26-May-15 4:23am

Because it's not my place to write your code for you. That's not what this site is about.
You really can't work out how to write text to a file? Maybe you should post a new question. Please include in the question exactly where you are stuck.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-May-15 10:42am

Ah, now I see: I guess you were the one who misled our inquirer to this trash:
http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/995247/Trying-to-Write-from-Debug-window-to-External-File.

Please don't get me wrong: I don't blame you, but perhaps you have to ask the inquirer what he is trying to do and why this debug window at all, why using Debug and Trace. And then I tried to answer next question, at least until this person lost patience and started to play rude:
http://www.codeproject.com/Answers/995255/Trying-to-Write-from-Debug-window-to-External-File#answer1.

Your advice to post a new question did not work :-(

—SA

Andy Lanng 29-May-15 10:58am

Ah. I see.

Well, we can only work with what we are told and this question was not very precise.

I agree with how you ended it. I have zero tolerance for inquirers being impolite, especially when we are trying to help them as best we know how.

This seems to be his first offence on this site, though

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-May-15 11:10am

I am not sure, because he collected many abuse reports on his member account. You don't take into account that many questions are automatically removed by some number of abuse reports, so we cannot see what was there. On was the re-post on the same topic, removed few minutes ago...
—SA

Andy Lanng 29-May-15 11:15am

Ah. I will remember the name and be sure to report anything directed at me