Eventlog questions

[Crea-Ue. Kirdar]

hi there,

i am out of ideas what to do with that eventlog-things. it seems,
that the implementation of the eventlog-support in dotnet is really
poor. however, here are the problems i have at the moment:

- if i ask for the id of an event i do not get the number that is
displayed in the eventviewer for messages with replacement-strings.

- if i ask for the message of an event with replacement-strings, i get
the message with "unable to format message...".

does anyone of you have an idea of how to solve that problems?

i'd appreciate any help.

thanks,

crea

 

[Crea-Ue. Kirdar]

I must see your code before answering.

hi dd,

here it comes:

public static void WriteEvents(string Machine, string Log, string DisplayFormat)
{
EventLog Reader=null;
Reader=new EventLog(Log, Machine);

foreach (EventLogEntry Entry in Reader.Entries)
{
Console.WriteLine("***");
Console.WriteLine("Type : " + Entry.EntryType.ToString());
Console.WriteLine("Date : " + Entry.TimeGenerated.ToShortDateString());
Console.WriteLine("Time : " + Entry.TimeGenerated.ToLongTimeString());
Console.WriteLine("Source : " + Entry.Source.ToString());
Console.WriteLine("Category : " + ((Entry.CategoryNumber==0)?"none":Entry.Category.ToString()));
Console.WriteLine("EventID : " + Entry.EventID.ToString());
Console.WriteLine("User : " + ((Entry.UserName==null)?"none":Entry.UserName.ToString()));
Console.WriteLine("Machine : " + Entry.MachineName.ToString());
Console.WriteLine("Message : " + Entry.Message.ToString().Replace("\n", "-").Replace("\r", "-"));
}
}

nothing unusual, as you can see. its just querying the eventlog.

cheers,

crea

 

[dd]

Maybe, I just did not understand your problem.
When I ran your code, it prints everything identical to my EventLog.
EventId's are the same as in the EventLog.
Did you get errors while running your code, or you are trying to accomplish
something else?