Logging blocks your application and takes lots of time. Event Tracing happens on a different thread and is built into Windows. It's supported by newer versions of .Net. You can do lots more than just capture errors. Kathleen Dollard has a good Pluralsight course on ETW.


>I am researching your suggestion, but can you elaborate on this, please?
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>Can I use Event Tracing at an installation site without my normal development tools to help me debug?
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>FWIW, the code runs fine at many sites and this is the first time I've had any problem so I added in the Console.Writeline() just to see if it was even reaching the first line of code, but apparently it is not.