Event logging provides a standard, centralized way for your applications to record important software and hardware events.

Event logging provides a standard, centralized way for you to have your applications record important software and hardware events.

This sample illustrates how to monitor an event log for new entries. It is a small console application that can be run from a command prompt.

This sample illustrates how to read simple performance information from a performance counter.

This sample illustrates how to publish the number of orders processed per second using a custom performance counter.

This sample illustrates the basics of using the Trace and Debug classes. Run it and take a look at the source code. You will see how easy it is to add simple tracing to your applications.

This sample illustrates the basics of using the trace and Boolean switches. A switch provides an efficient mechanism for enabling and disabling code paths at runtime using external settings.

This sample illustrates the basics of instrumenting applications with tracing. After running it, take a look at the source code.