Thanks
The code does not try and create a an event source as far as I can tell.
It just uses the event log as follows
Private Sub Form_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Try
_mainForm = Me 'setup reference
updatefrmMainText()
_testCatalogue.AutoUpdate = False 'This prevents a webservice
call
_testCatalogue.InitialiseCache()
_testCatalogue.AutoUpdate = True 'Enables the timer to go
looking for updates
getTestCatalogueDataColumnsUser()
Catch ex As Exception
eventLogWrite(EventLogEntryType.Error, "Error Occurred in
frmMain.Load()" & vbCrLf & "Message : " & ex.Message & vbCrLf &
ex.StackTrace)
Throw
End Try
End Su
>From looking at the event log, entries are being written to the application
event log.
This is happening from within vs2010 and I am a local administrator.
Will this still work ok for joe blow ("normal user") on windows7/vista or
will there be problems.
What permissions are needed if any to write to the application event log.
I thought there was a security issue with writing to event logs by all.
I guess I could test this but I would rather find out before writing a new
test app.
Regards Peter Maddin
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Joseph Clark
Sent: Friday, 9 December 2011 2:02 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Event Log
As far I can remember from the last time I looked at this stuff... writing
to the event log as a Joe user is fine - the problem is that creating the
"event source" for the log entries required administrative escalation.
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Peter Maddin <[email protected]>
wrote:
I am looking at maintaining an old vs2005 vb.net application.
This has been running on XP Pro workstations.
>From trawling through the code, I have found that it uses the event log for
recording errors.
I have open and converted the solution into VS2010.
I noticed that errors are being written to the application event log.
I suspect that on windows 7 (probably Vista as well) that a normal user may
run into problems when trying to write to the application event log.
Is this likely to be a problem if the application is installed on windows 7
and run by a user with minimal rights and permissions?
Regards Peter Maddin
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