I wrote a simple console application to test writing to the application
event log.
However I get an exception when I run it (Windows 7)
What am I doing wrong?
I am a local administrator and I only want to write to the existing
application event log.
If I can't get this to work, how will the average Joe User?
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Diagnostics;
namespace ConsoleEventLog
{
class Program
{
const string ConsoleEvents = "ConsoleEvents";
static void Main(string[] args)
{
bool hadEnough = false;
// Exception here
// {"The source was not found, but some or all event logs could
not be searched. Inaccessible logs: Security."}
if (!EventLog.SourceExists(ConsoleEvents))
EventLog.CreateEventSource(ConsoleEvents, "Application");
while (!hadEnough)
{
Console.WriteLine("1 : Error event");
Console.WriteLine("2 : Warning event");
Console.WriteLine("3 : Info event");
Console.WriteLine("4 : Exit");
Console.WriteLine("");
var x = Console.ReadKey();
Console.WriteLine("");
switch (x.KeyChar)
{
case '1':
Console.WriteLine("1 pressed");
LogError();
break;
case '2':
Console.WriteLine("2 pressed");
LogWarning();
break;
case '3':
Console.WriteLine("3 pressed");
LogInfo();
break;
case '4':
Console.WriteLine("4 pressed");
hadEnough = true;
break;
default:
Console.WriteLine("Don't be a cretin");
break;
}
Thread.Sleep(1000);
Console.Clear();
}
}
public static void LogError()
{
EventLog.WriteEntry(ConsoleEvents, "this is an error event",
EventLogEntryType.Error, 1);
}
public static void LogWarning()
{
EventLog.WriteEntry(ConsoleEvents, "this is an warning event",
EventLogEntryType.Warning, 2);
}
public static void LogInfo()
{
EventLog.WriteEntry(ConsoleEvents, "this is an informational
event", EventLogEntryType.Information, 3);
}
}
}
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
Applications Development Officer
PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA
Phone : +618 6396 4285 <tel:%2B618%206396%204285> (Monday,
Wednesday,Friday)
Phone : +618 9346 4372 <tel:%2B618%209346%204372> (Tuesday, Thursday)
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