<system.diagnostics>
  <trace autoflush="true" indentsize="4">
    <listeners>
      <add name="file" type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener" initializeData="trace.log"/>
    </listeners>
  </trace>
</system.diagnostics>

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