eventlog-source

I am having difficulty reliably creating / removing event sources during the installation of my .Net Windows Service. Here is the code from my ProjectInstaller class: // Create Process Installer ServiceProcessInstaller spi = new ServiceProcessInstaller(); spi.Account = ServiceAccount.LocalSystem; // Create Service ServiceInstaller si = new ServiceInstaller(); si.ServiceName = Facade.GetServiceName(); si.Description = "Processes ..."; si.DisplayName = "Auto Checkout"; si.StartType = ServiceStartMode.Automatic; // Remove Event Source if already there if (EventLog.SourceExists("AutoCheckout"))

I need the to write a log message and capture that in PerfView . I would like to avoid using EventLog or EventSource because they are quite invasive: they require registering a new source or ETW provider, which leaves leftovers in the system. Ideally I just want to call Debug.WriteLine (which uses OutputDebugString ), but it seems that PerfView cannot collect it. Or is there some ETW provider that sees debug messages? If you have an answer, please state the two parts of the solution: What should I write in C#, and How to configure PerfView to capture it (if there is some ETW provider, just

I've got a library that I use across multiple ClickOnce applications. In the event of an error in this library I would like to write the error to the windows EventLog . I found a KB article on how but it seems that this requires administrator permissions to search the for the source. Specifically it chokes when trying to search the Security event log. Is there anyway to work around this and write to the event log in a ClickOnce application? I saw one person trying to write to a known source , but they didn't seem to be able to find a source that was consistently available. EDIT: Based on

Short Version: Are the event sources "Application" and "Application Error" always included in the Application Event Log? Are they available on new installations of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7? Would it be really bad to use them instead of creating my own source (an impossibility for me)? Long Version: I have a ClickOnce application that is used by users without administrative privileges on their machines. When I try to write to the Appliction Event Log, I get a security exception. (The Windows event logging infrastructure is trying to create me a new event source, and gets a security

This is an intentional semi-duplicate of How do you create an event log source using WiX and WIX: Create EventSource using .NET message file . My first question is, does it really have to be so complicated? Isn't there some way to simply specify to WiX, "my program is a .Net program, and it needs to write to the event log - please do the necessary setup"? OK, assuming that isn't possible, I'd like to receive any recommendations for the necessary WiX statements to make it work, irrespective of which version of .Net Framework is installed, and irrespective of whether it is a 32 or 64-bit system.

I'm creating an installer for a website that uses a custom event log source. I would like our WiX based installer to create that event log source during installation. Does anyone know the best way to do this using the WiX framework. Wix has out-of-the-box support for creating event log sources. Assuming you use Wix 3, you first need to add a reference to WixUtilExtension to either your Votive project or the command line. You can then add an EventSource element under a component : <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi" xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension">