Visual Basic® .NET Unleashed

Chapter 20. Writing to the Event Log

In This Chapter

• Managing an Event Source

• Writing Events to an Existing Log

• Writing to a Custom Event Log

• Getting the Contents of an Event Log

• Clearing an Event Log

• Receiving Event Notifications

• Using a Remote Event Log

• Using EventLogTraceListener

• Summary

A common technique employed before integrated debuggers were popularized was to write application trace information to the console. An evolution of this process was to write application information to a text file. This is a strategy still employed today. Windows NT 4.0, 5.0 (2000), and XP use an event log to track significant system, security, and application information.

Visual Basic .NET supports a general logging strategy based on the Windows 2000 EventLog. An ...