Visual Basic® Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library

Learning by Example: The EventLog Control

The EventLog control application demonstrates how to create a composite control and then use it in a simple form-based application. In this case, you are creating a visual control based on a label control, a listbox control, a button control, and an EventLog component. In essence, you are giving the EventLog component a visual dimension. The EventLogControl object allows you to specify an event log in its Log property; it then shows you the log entries inside the ListBox control. This section also shows the actual test application, which shows an example of consuming the EventLogControl object. You can specify a log file by selecting the File menu and then the Log menu.

Key Concepts Covered

The EventLog ...