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Tony sends us this snipped of C# code:

internal static bool TraceListner(ProjectInstance objPI, Exception objError, int EntityID, Enumerations.LogEntityType EntityType, int EntityInterfaceID, Enumerations.LogReturnType ReturnType, Enumerations.EventLevels EventLevel, string StartTime, string EndTime, int UserID, string Description) { ProcessAudit objLog; bool blnWrite; try { // WRITE THE TRACE LOG IF PROCESS HAS AUDIT FLAG = TRUE //AND THE CURRENT ACTIVTIY AUDIT FLAG = TRUE // need to log all of the errors regardless of the activity blnWrite = true; // write to the log if it is an error type log if (!(objError == null)) blnWrite = true; if (blnWrite == true) { objLog = new PrjectAudit(objPI, objError, EntityID, Convert.ToInt32(EntityType), EntityInterfaceID, Convert.ToInt32(EventLevel), StartTime, EndTime, Convert.ToInt32(ReturnType), Description, UserID); return objLog.Save(); } } catch { } return false; }

This code is helpfully commented to make the “logic” clearer. And also the history of how this code evolved. First, we wanted to only

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