Dave,

The ApplicationName is the name of your application. In the event viewer
this is the 'Source' column.

To write to a different event log you need to set the LogName property.
The default value of LogName is 'Application'.

Cheers,
Nicko 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Elliott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 20 August 2004 15:57
> To: Log4Net
> Subject: Help with EventLog Appender
> 
> I have the following defined:
> 
> <appender name="EventLog" type="log4net.Appender.EventLogAppender" >
>     param name="ApplicationName" value="MyEventLog" />
>     <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
>         <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%m" />
>     </layout>
> </appender>
> 
> When I use this appender, the event log is NOT created and 
> all messages end up going to the Application Event Log. 
> 
> So messages are getting to the event viewer just not where I 
> want it to go.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 

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