We have a C# service that is deployed to a remote customer system. The application writes a substantial amount of ‘diagnostic’ information to the console (i.e. Console.WriteLine()). The service isn’t ‘doing what it should.’ How can we capture the console output from the service in another application?
A WinForm version the application can be loaded at the customer location. It, unfortunately, functions correctly.
Update:
We are able to change the change the service, but would prefer not to make major changes at this time.
We are also logging to MSMQ, but only for ‘important’ events. This service does interact with MSMQ for its normal operations. Or, at least, it should. The service doesn’t seem to be pulling items from MSMQ when the WinForm version does. So, writing the messages that are going to the console could be problematic.
Are you able to change the service code at all? If so, using Console.SetOut to write to a file instead would be the most obvious first port of call. Then change to using a proper logging library for the next release 🙂