At the EKON I met Ray Konopka of Raize Software and he showed me his VCL component sets and their logging application CodeSite. WOW! Why didn't I know this application already, why didn't anyone tell me before? What a great tool for tracing your software, even on your clients computers when you are not there. When developing our content management system Content ACE, CodeSite would have helped in a great way when debugging sessions just could not get us there, especially when initially deploying our software to beta customers. I am surprised that CodeGear does not use it inside the Delphi tools development process.
I have toyed around with it yesterday and started today with inserting the first traces into my new software project which I will introduce later this year. While I have actually not yet done much tracing with it in the new software, I am already aware that it will help a lot when time comes. You should check it out!
The greatest thing about CodeSite, it works not only in native Delphi, but in C++Builder, Delphi.NET, C# and any other .NET language as well. With some tweaking, I am sure, you could use it in scripting languages as well - sure, first you have to create some ActiveX that hosts CodeSite, but this should be done easily enough. Might happen, that I'll do just that soon.
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