How to get IntelliTrace in production for Windows Applications in Visual Studio 11

As we saw in the last post, we can get IntelliTrace logs from web applications.

But this is possible for Windows Applications, too!

Locate the IntelliTrace application under C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\IntelliTrace\11.0.0.

Then launch it, with the following syntax:

intellitrace.exe launch /cp:<CollectionPlanPath> /f:<LogFilePath> <ExecutablePath>

That’s all, we finished

After that the itrace file is analysable as usual.