Project Description
TraceSpy is a pure .NET alternative to the very popular SysInternals DebugView tool.


Notables points of interest are:
  • It's 100% .NET
  • It does not need UAC to be disabled nor special rights
  • It can remove empty lines (which is very handy to get rid of these pesky trace lines sent by Visual Studio 2010 for example...)
  • The traced application is less blocked by this tracing tool than DebugView
  • The Copy (CTRL-C) operation just copies the traced text, and not the full line (a full line copy feature is there though)
  • The process name of the traced application is optionally displayed instead of the process id (if available and not dead at that time)
  • The find dialog has an autocomplete feature
  • Lines that contain newline characters (\r, \n) are not displayed as normal lines (DbgView does this) but as one big line
  • There is a colorizer feature that allows traces colorization using regular expressions.

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Things that are missing - I don't plan to add them since I never used them in DbgView in many years :-)
  • Highlights
  • Kernel capture
  • Save & Log to file
  • Append comment
  • Remote connect

Last edited May 11, 2011 at 3:49 PM by simonm, version 20