System.Net Tracing: Tracing at the Network level

I hope you never need it, but it is possible to do some real low level tracing to see what network communications are happening inside your .NET app.

To enable this, you can add diagnostics at the System.NET level:

	<system.diagnostics>
	<sources>
	<source name="System.Net" tracemode="includehex" maxdatasize="1024">
	<listeners>
	<add name="System.Net"/>
	</listeners>
	</source>
	<source name="System.Net.Sockets">
	<listeners>
	<add name="System.Net"/>
	</listeners>
	</source>
	<source name="System.Net.Cache">
	<listeners>
	<add name="System.Net"/>
	</listeners>
	</source>
	</sources>
	<switches>
	<add name="System.Net" value="Verbose"/>
	<add name="System.Net.Sockets" value="Verbose"/>
	<add name="System.Net.Cache" value="Verbose"/>
	</switches>
	<sharedListeners>
	<add name="System.Net" type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener" initializeData="c:\tracelogs\network_trace.log"/>
	</sharedListeners>
	<trace autoflush="true"/>
	</system.diagnostics>

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