EventLog and reg access

[Charles]

Why would

Private m_elEventLog As EventLog

m_elEventLog.WriteEntry(Date.Now & " MyApp started",
EventLogEntryType.Information)

try and access the registry? What key is it looking at?

 

[Gabriele G. Ponti]

I don't have the answer to your question, but you can use Regmon to find out
what's going on with the registry.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/regmon.shtml

Gabriele

 

[Any old Joe]

Hello

It is looking at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
\Eventlog\Application and then the name of the application that is trying
to log the error to find the EventMessageFile key that instructs the OS
what to use to write the entry... in dotnet this usually is
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705\EventLogMessages.dll