Report events

In VB we can report events by the following method (Win NT and higher)

VB Code:

Option Explicit
 
Private Declare Function GetVersion Lib "kernel32" () As Long
 
Private Const EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ = &H1
Private Const EVENTLOG_SEEK_READ = &H2
Private Const EVENTLOG_FORWARDS_READ = &H4
Private Const EVENTLOG_BACKWARDS_READ = &H8
 
Public Enum EventType
    EError = &H1
    EWarning = &H2
    EInformation = &H4
    ESuccess = &H0
    EAuditSuccess = &H8
    EAuditFailure = &H10
End Enum
 
Private Declare Function OpenEventLog Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "OpenEventLogA" (ByVal lpUNCServerName As String, ByVal lpSourceName As String) As Long
 
Private Declare Function ReportEvent Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "ReportEventA" (ByVal hEventLog As Long, ByVal wType As EventType, ByVal wCategory As Long, ByVal dwEventID As Long, lpUserSid As Any, ByVal wNumStrings As Long, ByVal dwDataSize As Long, lpStrings As String, lpRawData As Any) As Long
 
Private Declare Function CloseEventLog Lib "advapi32.dll" (ByVal hEventLog As Long) As Long
 
 
Dim hEventLog As Long, Details As String
 
Private Sub cmdreport_Click()
If GetVersion() And &H80000000 Then
        MsgBox "Event logging is not available in win 9X.", vbCritical, "Error(unavailable function)...!"
    Else
        Details = "Error"
        hEventLog = OpenEventLog(vbNullString, Details)
        ReportEvent hEventLog, EError, 0, 0, ByVal 0&, 1, 0, "Event Log test.", ByVal 0&
        CloseEventLog hEventLog
End If
End Sub

This is fine but there is something missing , first looks to this picture

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7364/event0qc.png

It say that the descripitor for event ........... cannot be found............. .

what my code need to report events as other windows applications that give full detalis about the error ?

first of all you did not declare the function properly. Try this

VB Code:

Private Declare Function ReportEvent Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "ReportEventA" ( _
    ByVal hEventLog As Long, _
    ByVal wType As Integer, _
    ByVal wCategory As Integer, _
    ByVal dwEventID As Long, _
    lpUserSid As Any, _
    ByVal wNumStrings As Integer, _
    ByVal dwDataSize As Long, _
    ByVal lpStrings As String, _
    lpRawData As Any _
) As Long

There may be other problems I haven't seen yet.

I think you might have to use
RegisterEventSource
instead of
OpenEventLog
see example
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...g_an_event.asp

No useful info at this link , even with this project http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=154576 at M$ MSDN do the same as my code. :confused: