Date: 09/20/05 (C Sharp)    Keywords: no keywords

When using System.Diagnostics.Trace to well...trace, what is the best way to make sure that TextWriterTraceListeners get closed? I saw in a few examples that you can call Trace.Close(), but then it seems like you'd have to either use a finalizer or else re-open and then close the Trace each time you needed it.

The reason I ask is because I'm using trace to a little bit of simple logging to a flatfile, and I can only seem to use the flatfile once, because the next time I try to open it, it fails because the file is in use by another process. Any general tips\best practices when using Trace would be appreciated.

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