event-log

I have developed a Windows service in C#. I have created a installer with Visual Studio 2008, which installs the Windows service. Everything is good so far. I want to make sure that the event source has been created at install time, so that any error/exception conditions at runtime are correctly logged to the Windows event log. Does the event source get automatically created (and removed) as part of the windows service installation (and uninstallation), or do I have to handle this myself and create a custom action to create and delete it as follows? protected override void OnBeforeInstall

I'd like to catch my exceptions and log them in the Windows log file. How do I go about opening and writing to the Windows log? You can use the System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry function to write entries to the event log. System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry("MyEventSource", exception.StackTrace, System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntryType.Warning); To read event logs you can use the System.Diagnostics.EventLog.GetEventLogs function. //here's how you get the event logs var eventLogs = System.Diagnostics.EventLog.GetEventLogs(); foreach(var eventLog in eventLogs) { //here's how you get the

I am working on a program and need ot know how I would read a specific entry to the Windows Event Log based on a Record number, which this script will already have. Below is the code I have been working with, but I don't want to loop through all of the events until I find the one I'm looking for. Any ideas? import win32evtlog server = 'localhost' # name of the target computer to get event logs logtype = 'System' hand = win32evtlog.OpenEventLog(server,logtype) flags = win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_BACKWARDS_READ|win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ total = win32evtlog.GetNumberOfEventLogRecords(hand)

I am having difficulty reliably creating / removing event sources during the installation of my .Net Windows Service. Here is the code from my ProjectInstaller class: // Create Process Installer ServiceProcessInstaller spi = new ServiceProcessInstaller(); spi.Account = ServiceAccount.LocalSystem; // Create Service ServiceInstaller si = new ServiceInstaller(); si.ServiceName = Facade.GetServiceName(); si.Description = "Processes ..."; si.DisplayName = "Auto Checkout"; si.StartType = ServiceStartMode.Automatic; // Remove Event Source if already there if (EventLog.SourceExists("AutoCheckout"))