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title: "What is the difference between trace and debug?"  
description: "What is the difference between trace and debug?"  
author: "Tarun Gautam"  
published: 2017-11-15  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/30648/what-is-the-difference-between-trace-and-debug  
category: "programming"  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is the difference between trace and debug?

What is the [difference](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/157114/good-news-or-bad-news-and-the-difference-is) between [trace](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34798/which-modern-states-does-the-natchez-trace-join) and [debug](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/495/how-can-you-debug-failed-assembly-binds)?

## Answers

### Answer by Arti Mishra

**“Difference between trace and debug in asp net”** **Debug**

- Debug is mainly used for **debugging the line of code** **during execution.**
- It always **runs in the same thread** where the execution of the main thread started.
- For the debugging process, you can use **Debug.Write()** method.
- It works only **Debug mode.**
- For **application development time** we can use Debug class.

**Trace**

- Trace is mainly used for **writing to the log file.**
- It runs **on multiple threads.**
- For tracing you can use **Trace.Write() method.**
- It works in **debug and release mode.**
- For **deployment of any application,** we can use trace.

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