How to Query for an event log details with a given event id?

Question

1. How to know whether a particular event (given event ID, time and node as inputs) is logged or not? [In this case, I know only one event will be logged]
2. If the

Answer 1

You could query the event log in question:

var sourceName = "MySource";
var el = new EventLog("Application");
var latestEntryTime = (from entry in el.Entries.Cast()
                       where entry.Source == sourceName
                       && // put other where clauses here...
                       orderby entry.TimeWritten descending
                       select entry).First();

However, be warned that this approach is slow, since the Entries collection tends to be quite big.