Why does EventRecord.FormatDescription() return null?

Question

When using System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogQuery to read events from the Windows Event Log, the EventRecord.FormatDescription() method somet

Answer 1

so i've been struggling with this for a few days too. I couldn't get it to work by changing the culture. In the end, i just used the raw data in the Properties property of the event record. The message data is in there, it's just not pretty. (just about good enough for my audit needs though :-))