WARNING -Provider resources not accessible running wevtutil

Question

I need help solving the \"Provider \'\' resources not accessible when trying to create a windows event provider. I create my manifest file with the ManGen utility, and name

Answer 1

When you install your manifest (e.g. wevtutil im manifest.man), you should see some sort of a warning if the resources aren't available:

**** Warning: Publisher EventsProvider resources are not accessible.

To get some additional information, try to retrieve information on one of the publishers. For example:

c:\...> wevtutil gp 
Failed to open metadata for publisher . Access denied.

Ok, the above suggests a permissions problem, so let me make the path accessible and try again:

c:\...> wevtutil gp 
Failed to open metadata for publisher . The specified resource
type cannot be found in the image file.

For the above, it looks like the resource didn't get compiled in correctly.

If you go File->Open with VS and open your exe in the resource viewer you should be able to see the resources that were compiled in. You should at least have a "WEVT_TEMPLATE" entry.

For the resource to be compiled in correctly, csc needs to be passed the resource as follows:

csc /win32res: