How to define custom TraceListener in app.config

Question

I have implemented a custom trace listener (derived from TextWriteTraceListener) and now I would like to set my application to use it instead of standard

Answer 1

I've been struggling with this recently and just in case it helps anyone...

I knew my type existed so I wrote the following:

Assembly assembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof("yourclassname"));
Type myClassType = assembly.GetType("yournamespace.yourclassname");

In my case, myClassType.AssemblyQualifiedName contained the string I needed in my app.config file in the type attribute.

For example: