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Understand the iTrace files

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Understand the iTrace files

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- [Instructor] For this example, I have a search utility open, and docked on the right side of my screen. This is one of my favorite free tools for windows. It provides nearly instantaneous search for all files on the computer. It's called everything. And you can get your own copy at their website, here at voidtools.com. I configured the utility to search for only files that have the ITrace extension. Now, I'll go over to solution explorer, and I'll debug this console application. Once the console window is open, and the debugger is attached, you can see that in the utility, I can see this new file. And it is stored in my windows temp directory. That means that when I go back to the application and detach the debugger and stop running the application that file is deleted. These files are automatically created and removed during the session. At least that's true when you've enabled IntelliTrace. Now remember that…

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