Writing to the event log from a BizTalk Orchestration

Some pointers when utilising DebugView to view debug output from your Orchestration:

• Make sure you write to System.Diagnostics.Trace, rather than System.Diagnostics.Debug
  This ensures that the trace statements will not be compiled out of non-debug builds (unless of course, this is what you want to do!)
• Use a static method on a helper class to provide a wrapper function.  This also makes it easier to provide different levels of debug messages, eg. Debug, Information, Warning, Error
• Finally, ensure the “Capture Global Win32″ flag is set in DebugView.  Without this, you’ll be scratching your head wondering where the messages have gone (speaking from experience)