ETW, .NET 4.5 - how to write to the event log?

Question

I am trying to wrap my head around ETW and how to integrate t into a high Performance application.

We all know the old dreaded EventLog with it\'s non structured (and th

Answer 1

In August 2013, Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource 1.0.4 beta released on NuGet. The three big wins are channel support, static (installed) manifest support (the two things required to get into the Event Viewer) and .NET 4.0 support.

According to the blog post announcing RTM, Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource "enables fast app tracing to the Windows Event Log, including in production".