wcf trying to set up tracing to debug, not writing to log file

Question

here\'s my web.config, running a WCF service in an application on IIS7, but nothing is being written to the specified file. permission on the file has been granted for ever

Answer 1

1. Make sure you have configured both the system.diagnostics and the System.serviceModel/diagnostics sections configured.

2. Make sure you have them configured in the correct App.config/Web.config file. The thing to note is that multiple config files may exist in a project, and the one used depends on the Build Configuration.

Personally I had the very same symptom until I noticed that I put the sections under app.config (in my case, client side tracing), instead of app.DebugLocal.config. The later was used as my build configuration was set to DebugLocal.