Sharepoint Logging Spy

UPDATED RELEASE: RC1 (Mar 17, 2008)

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:24:57 GMT

Stability improvements, minor bug fixes and this application has all the latest plugins in a single DLL.

Feedback always welcomed.

UPDATED RELEASE: Beta 3 (Jan 11, 2008)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:48:25 GMT

Because of the major new functionality introduced (and lack of testing time) I'm making another beta release available. Major changes have been (as RC1 details) the plug-in architecture and the Farm Explorer treeview. There is more work to do on this but it is fairly functional and will allow developers to write plug-ins for the application to fulfil specific niche requirements. Please use it in anger and give feedback.

UPDATED RELEASE: RC1 (Mar 17, 2008)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:46:35 GMT

Stability improvements, minor bug fixes and this application has all the latest plugins in a single DLL.

Feedback always welcomed.

CREATED RELEASE: RC1.1 (Mar 17, 2008)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:44:32 GMT

Stability improvements, minor bug fixes and this application has all the latest plugins in a single DLL.

Feedback always welcomed.

UPDATED RELEASE: Beta 3 (Jan 11, 2008)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:40:50 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: Beta 3 (Jan 11, 2008)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:16:17 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: Beta 3 (Jan 11, 2008)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:14:03 GMT

CREATED ISSUE: PROBLEM:DO NOT USE DURING INSTALLATION OF SP1

stiow — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:00:49 GMT

Logging spy holds certain sharepoint DLLs in memory during is't use and this will prevent the service pack from installing correctly.

This is not a bug that can be fixed - just don't sp your farm when you've got logging spy turned on

UPDATED WIKI: Home

stiow — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:36:33 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: Source Code (Feb 07, 2008)

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:13:37 GMT

Here is the source code for the application. It won't compile for you as I've removed the resources from the application to keep the file size down - however all the code for the application is present and you should be able to re-use it as you like in your own applications (in line with the liscense).

Any questions or if you spot any bugs then please give me a shout.

Whilst I've tried to keep the code clean there have been days when I was trying to debug the application (and the fact that it's multi-threaded) resulted in me putting in conditinal compilation and also some debugging code - which is yet to be removed.

I am still working on the application and most of my time is spent making new features (not doing the nessecary code cleanup). Please bear this in mind when looking at the code (I know how scathing developers can be).

Only final thing to note is that the application currently has two namespaces (which is because it's name changed throughout development). I'll resolve this at some point in the future.

As always feedback is appreciated.

UPDATED RELEASE: Beta 3 (Jan 11, 2008)

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:35:12 GMT

NEW POST: Confusing interface and many object reference errors

stiow — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:18:43 GMT

Thanks for the feedback roth4fun. I can correct the spelling errors no problems with no futher input (spelling is not my strong point). Can you please suggest ways to make the application more intuitive - as I'm sure your aware, in the techie world you can get too close to something (which is where I am with this app). If you could give me a fresh look at this then I'd really appreciate it.

Also - could you send me some screenshots of the errors - the application has my email address in it

Stiow

NEW POST: Confusing interface and many object reference errors

roth4fun — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:55:33 GMT

I cannot recommend this to others to leverage in its current state. Normally I would expect even a beta to have a very solid set of base functionality that is easy to use and have ancillary items in progress. In this case the whole thing is difficult to use as it is far from intuitive and I have constantly gotten obect reference balloons popping up when clicking on various features of the tool. I can only hope a release candidate for this addresses many of the current shortcomings.

Additionally, a very easy thing to do is to have the tool tips and prompts shown at least have the spelling errors removed.

UPDATED RELEASE: Beta 3 (Jan 11, 2008)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:09:29 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: Beta 3 (Jan 11, 2008)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:21:32 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: Beta 3 (Jan 11, 2008)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:26:35 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: Beta 3 (Jan 11, 2008)

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:51:00 GMT

UPDATED WIKI: Home

stiow — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:32:42 GMT

UPDATED WIKI: Home

stiow — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:31:14 GMT

Project Description
A MOSS 2007 utility to allow real time diagnostics of multiple servers in a sharepoint farm using a single console view

Sharepoint Logging Spy is a real time diagnostic application for MOSS 2007 which allows you to view (and save to disk) ULS Log & Event log entries from multiple machines in a sharepoint farm through a single console. NOTE - There is a known issue with Event Log Entries not being displayed from remote machines; this will be fixed in beta 2

The application also provides drill downs for information regarding the thread or process which generated the log entries which are reported in the main screen. The thread and process information is collected on demand (when you click the menu) and is NOT historical therefore it is feasable that the process/thread may no longer exist when you ask for the information and you will get an empty result set.

To easy configuration there is a discovery wizard which will discover on-line servers in the farm and allow selective monitoring to begin. There are plans to allow for the use of XML configuration files however this is yet to be implemented

When using the application always look out for tool tips or hit F1 on the controls to get some feedback about what they are used for. Right click on the controls to see if there is any functionality associated with them

Beta 1.2 has had a number of stability improvements made to it above Beta 1.0 and Beta 1.1; and the UI has had a tidy up. There is still a long way to go and I appreciate feedback (no matter how big or small)

A final note - please remeber that this is a beta release as such all the functionality that you see may not be complete; there is only minimal exception handling so you may see unhandled exceptions (please take the time to report these). In addition to this there is some testing functionality which is still in the application.

The project is written in c#, using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and is compiled for the .Net 2.0 framework. I can not begin to express just how cool VS2008 is and how much I'm looking forward to the final release.

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CREATED RELEASE: RC1

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:39:20 GMT

RC1 is currently being planned. The major change in this release will be "drag and drop" and the plug-in architechture functionality on the Shrepoint tree explorer. This will allow administrators/developers to write their own plugins to perform actions on specific sharepoint objects selectable in the windows GUI; needless to say this means that the sharepoint tree explorer will need to be finished. A number of plug-ins will be made available on codeplex along with this release... So if anyone has any suggestions then please create a discussion or a feature request.