.NET enable and disable Fusion log to investigate assembly loading issues

Had to investigate some Assembly Loading issues, so I wrote two batch files to enable and disable the .NET Fusion Log:

reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion" /v EnableLog /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Disable-Fusion-Log-.NET-Assembly-Binding-Logging.bat hosted by GitHub.

reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion" /v EnableLog /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

Enable-Fusion-Log-.NET-Assembly-Binding-Logging.bat hosted by GitHub.

They modify the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion key REG_DWORD value EnableLog.

A few notes:

• It is very important to turn of the Fusion log settings as soon as you are finished investigating. Fusion logs potentially take a lot of resources.
• When you have a .NET host like ISS, you have to restart that host (for instance by running iisreset)
• There is also Fuslogvw.exe Assembly Binding Log Viewer, but I like logging over viewing as logs are persistent.
• There are more values under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Fusion you can configure; see the answer by Gary Kindel on StackOverflow:
  • DWORD ForceLog set value to 1
  • DWORD LogFailures set value to 1
  • DWORD LogResourceBinds set value to 1
  • String LogPath set value to folder for logs e.g. C:\FusionLog\ (ensure the final backslash is there and the folder exists).

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