How one can set TraceSwitch to enable tracing of WinForms internals

[kant2002]

For now I create debug build and manually set Level of desired TraceSwitch to Verbose but is there way to control these settings via environment or configuration file?

Separate question. ASP.NET Core provide transparancy of internal workings by instrumenting whole application so logs can provide view of the wokring. Do WinForms can do the same? Maybe provide some integration with M.E.Configuration?

[RussKie]

According to the docs TraceSwitches can only be configured via app.config in .NET Framework.

Hopefully @dotnet/area-system-configuration can guide us on how to configure those in .NET.

[danmoseley]

@JeremyKuhne likely has more familiarity, as he ported it and it's barely been touched since.

[JeremyKuhne]

@danmoseley This is more of a System.Diagnostics question. It no longer loads the data from the config file and I don't know that the scenario has any other viable alternative without reimplementing the feature. It might be a little complicated given that System.Configuration is not part of the core package. I don't know if the runtime configuration would suffice or not- I've never had a chance to look into it.

[danmoseley]

Ah yes. And it seems ther'es already an issue -- #23937.

[kant2002]

Once again, after this request https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/pull/7180/files#r874218389 to add Debug.WriteLine, I would like to either use TraceSource or somehow start using other logging capabilities, so logging intents can be separated.