Adding WCF Service Trace Logging programmatically

Question

I currently have WCF Tracing set in my app.config like so :

<system.diagnostics>
<trace autoflush="true">
  <listeners>
  </listeners>
</trace>
<sources>
  <source name="System.ServiceModel" switchValue="Information, ActivityTracing">
    <listeners>
      <add name="sdt" type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener" initializeData="WcfDetailTrace.svclog" />
    </listeners>
  </source>
</sources>

This works as expected, however, I want to be able to programmatically set the file location and filename of my log file to something other than WcfDetailTrace.svclog.

Currently I have tried adding this to my Service Host:

TraceSource ts = new TraceSource("System.ServiceModel");                
var listener = new XmlWriterTraceListener(SomeCustomFilename + ".svclog", "std2");           
ts.Listeners.Add(listener);

The above only seems to log data into my custom file when I use the method ts.TraceData()

Is there someway to make all the WCF logging, that currently goes into file WcfDetailTrace.svclog to go into my custom file instead?

Adding WCF Service Trace Logging programmatically

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