Windows service event log message file

Thanks Scott,

 

Your code is great! My question is not about how to create event source and write event log in C# code. :-)

My question is how to create event log source in script, and I am writing an installation script for my C# Windows service application. I am studying the other Windows service applications' registry entries and find the similar items in Windows registry, but from search, I can not find any related help information about how to fill the entries. Do you have any ideas to my original question?

 

regards,

George

It contains the message strings used to define the events.  As far as writing to an event log, you do that using System.Diagnostics.EventLog:

        public bool WriteToEventLog(

                         string entry,

                         string appName,

                         EventLogEntryType eventType,

                         string logName)

        {

 

            EventLog objEventLog = new EventLog();

 

            try

            {

                //Register the Application as an Event Source

                if (!EventLog.SourceExists(appName))

                {

                    EventLog.CreateEventSource(appName, logName);

                }

 

                // log the entry

                objEventLog.Source = appName;

                objEventLog.WriteEntry(entry, eventType);

 

                return true;

            }

            catch

            {

                return false;

            }

        }