A very unhappy System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine

[RB Emphasys]

Hello All, I have this one asp.net 2.0 project that throws the following error when I attempt to use System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine {"Couldn't create listener 'textWriterTraceListener'."} System.Exception {System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException} It has an interesting inner exception of: InnerException {"Illegal characters in path."} System.Exception {System.ArgumentException} All of the other asp.net 2.0 apps I have run perfectly fine with that statement and previous versions of this application ran fine. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Ryan

[Gareth H]

RB@Emphasys, Show us some code.

Regards, Gareth. (FKA gareth111)

[RB Emphasys]

I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, it's simply erroring out when attempting to writeline, but here is the if statement:

if (CertificationPerson_RaceTable.GetRecords("IsActive = 1 And fkPerson = " + oCertPersonRecord.PK).Length == 0)
{
//Errors out here, the objects are fully populated
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(oCertPersonRecord.PK + " " + oCertPersonRecord.fkRace);
oPersonRaceRecord = new CertificationPerson_RaceRecord();
oPersonRaceRecord.fkPerson = oCertPersonRecord.PK;
oPersonRaceRecord.fkRace = oCertPersonRecord.fkRace;
oPersonRaceRecord.Save();
}

Thanks, Ryan

[The Nightcoder]

Check your application settings (web.config). Sounds like it's trying to trace to a file but someone made a typo in the file name or path. As in:

<configuration>
<system.diagnostics>
<trace autoflush="false" indentsize="4">
<listeners>
<add name="myListener"
type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener"
initializeData="InvalidFileNameHere.log" />
<remove name="Default" />
</listeners>
</trace>
</system.diagnostics>
</configuration>

I bolded the place to look for the error.

Peter the small turnip (1) It Has To Work. --RFC 1925[^]

[RB Emphasys]

Thanks Peter, That did the trick. I spaced out on that one.... Ryan