EventLog

Hi,

I am trying to create a class to write eventlogs on another computer.

It works fine when I don 't specify the log it needs to write in. Then the application will automatic take the "Application" log.

How can I create a new log on this other computer? (thru code!!!)

Thanks

Code:

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    Public Sub error2Log(ByRef errorEvent As Exception, ByVal location As String)

        Dim log As New EventLog
        Dim mess As String

        log.MachineName = "B-MIS0-ROELANB"
        log.Log = "myAppLOg"  '<-- This does not work !!!
        log.Source = Application.ExecutablePath

        mess = vbNewLine & "TIME: " & Now & vbNewLine & vbNewLine
        mess = mess & "DESCRIPTION: " & errorEvent.Message & vbNewLine & vbNewLine
        mess = mess & "LOCATION: " & location & vbNewLine

        log.WriteEntry(mess)

        log = Nothing

    End Sub

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This is my Error:

An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in system.dll

Additional information:
The source 'C:\projects\CemaPrep\CemaPrep\bin\CemaPrep.exe' is
not registered in log 'myAppLOg'. (It is registered in log 'Application'.)
" The Source and Log properties must be matched,
or you may set Log to the empty string,
and it will automatically be matched to th

I was creating my first service yesterday and ran into this problem also. But then I saw that every service on my machine writes to the Application log. They do not create their own event logs.

So I just went with the flow. If for example, SQL Server doesn't create it's own log, why would you?