c# writing to the event viewer

Question

I\'m trying to write to the event viewer in my c# code, but I\'m getting the wonderful \"Object reference not set to an instance of an object\" message. I\'d appreciate som

Answer 1

   private void WriteEventLogToFile()
    {
        try
        {
            using (EventLog eventLog = new EventLog("Application"))
            {
             // source for your event 
                eventLog.Source = "IAStorDataMgrSvc";

             // Syntax details
            // eventLog.WriteEntry("details",type of event,event id);
             eventLog.WriteEntry("Hard disk Failure details", EventLogEntryType.Information, 11);
            }
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            throw;
        }
    }