EventLog woes

[Mark Henry]

I can't for the life of me get an EventLog to log to a custom log.
Everything I've possibly tried ends up with some error in the
Application log about missing message DLLs. If I log to the Application
log instead, everything's fine.
I set the log's source properly - there source doesn't exist for the
Application log, but it does exist in the custom log - I checked in the
registry. Everything looks perfectly fine, except it simply doesn't work.

Is there some special super-secret trick to getting event logging
working properly?

-Mark-

[Michael Nemtsev]

Hello Mark,

You need to create source (via EventLog for example) to start log into it

MHI can't for the life of me get an EventLog to log to a custom log.
MHEverything I've possibly tried ends up with some error in the
MHApplication log about missing message DLLs. If I log to the
MHApplication
MHlog instead, everything's fine.
MHI set the log's source properly - there source doesn't exist for the
MHApplication log, but it does exist in the custom log - I checked in
MHthe
MHregistry. Everything looks perfectly fine, except it simply doesn't
MHwork.
MHIs there some special super-secret trick to getting event logging
MHworking properly?
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MH-Mark-
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cease to be insipid." (c) Friedrich Nietzsche

[ignacio machin]

Do you have admin permissions?

What errors are u getting?

It's very easy to write in the event log

"Mark Henry" wrote:

I can't for the life of me get an EventLog to log to a custom log.
Everything I've possibly tried ends up with some error in the
Application log about missing message DLLs. If I log to the Application
log instead, everything's fine.
I set the log's source properly - there source doesn't exist for the
Application log, but it does exist in the custom log - I checked in the
registry. Everything looks perfectly fine, except it simply doesn't work.

Is there some special super-secret trick to getting event logging
working properly?

-Mark-

[Kevin Spencer]

Since we know nothing about what exactly you've tried to do, I'm going to
have to give you ALL of the super-secret tricks to writing to the Event Log,
and you'll have to figure out which super-secret trick you've overlooked:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib....eventlog.aspx

--
;-),

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Ministry of Software Development
http://unclechutney.blogspot.com

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who shot an elephant in my pajamas.
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>I can't for the life of me get an EventLog to log to a custom log.
Everything I've possibly tried ends up with some error in the Application
log about missing message DLLs. If I log to the Application log instead,
everything's fine.
I set the log's source properly - there source doesn't exist for the
Application log, but it does exist in the custom log - I checked in the
registry. Everything looks perfectly fine, except it simply doesn't work.

Is there some special super-secret trick to getting event logging working
properly?

-Mark-