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Author Contradictory info on trace.axd and PageOutput
Justin Dutoit

2003-08-25, 12:25 am

Hey. I'm doing a few practice exams to prepare for 70-305. When trace
pageOutput is set to true in web.config, some sources say the trace info
does not get appended to trace.axd- it has to be set to false-, and some say
it doesn't matter. Check this out-

(MeasureUp practice exam) "If the pageOutput attribute is set to 'false',
all tracing messages are appended to trace.axd. If the value is 'true',
tracing messages are appended to the page it is associated with."

(MSPress Self-Paced training kit p295) "To write trace messages to a log
file for an entire application, in the application's web.config file, set
the <trace> element's pageOutput attribute to 'false'. ASP.NET then writes
trace output to the Trace.axd file."

Now this-
(Transcender exam A. 28) "You have developed an ASP.NET application, and you
want to enable tracing on all pages. You want the trace information to
appear on the bottom of each page. You also want any browser to be able to
view the trace output in the .axd trace utility. Which action should you
perform?

Correct answer: <trace enabled="true" pageOutput="true" localOnly="false">
Explanation excerpt: "Setting the pageOutput attribute to false, or not
specifying a pageOutput value, will send the information to the trace.axd
file; a true value will send the information to both the trace.axd file and
the bottom of each web page."

In my limited testing on my asp.net web host, I found the last (Transcender)
to be right.

I'd really appreciate an answer on this- how could MS and MeasureUp both be
wrong ....

Thanks!

Justin D


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