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An event log is a file used to record a timeline of events along with contextual metadata

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Application Event log exceeding maximum allowed count

Somehow, the Application Event log count ended up to 18,446,744,073,709,551,499. This causes MMC snap-in to fail when I want to see the event using Event Viewer, giving a System.OverflowException (Value was either too large or too small for an…
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Writing to event log in C# - do I need to use EventLog.CreateEventSource when writing to Application log?

When I use the following code to write to Application Event log, everything works fine: EventLog log = new EventLog(); log.Source = "Application"; log.WriteEntry("test message", EventLogEntryType.Error); When I use the code that is from MSDN and…
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Create EventLog source in WiX without an event message file

I've seen a few questions here and there about creating event log sources using WiX. What puzzles me is why util:EventSource/@EventMessageFile is required. It's annoying having to specify it when you don't need a message file to write event log…
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Logging LogLevel-Information not showing in Windows event log

I ran into some problems with logging **Information** Logs to Windows event log. Starting from a blank ASP.NET Core-Web-API .Net 5 I edited the following to Program.cs public static IHostBuilder CreateHostBuilder(string[] args)…
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Detect manual time change and daylight savings time events in windows events log

I would like to detect during my C# application run-time a manual change of the system time and date and automatic daylight savings time change. Moreover I am looking for a way to detect these changes that happened during the time the application…
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Windows Event IDs

Is there a specific range of Event IDs in Windows reserved for application developers? I'm working on a .Net application that will write errors to the windows event log. This application actually targets servers, and will be run as a scheduled task…
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add event log to registry

I'm attempting to access a 'ForwardedEvents' events log on a server using el = new EventLog("ForwardedEvents", serverName); this isn't working. I believe it's not working because the log isn't contained in the registry where Eventlog would expect…
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Security exception when writting to an EventLog from an ASP.NET MVC application

I have a library that I created with some business logic that includes writing to a System.Diagnostics.EventLog instance. The library is normally called from a Windows Service application, but now I'm trying to call those same library functions from…
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Is it acceptable to write to the Application Event Source?

There are certain circumstances in our application where non-fatal errors occur and the application recovers. An example of this failing to correctly identify some importable items when populating said items to a selection list. The errors won't…
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How to write event log category

As we know, we can use the class EventLog to write event logs, but I am confused about how to write category name in my event log. Thoug it provides the category parameter, for example, one of the type of WriteEntry is: public void…
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EventLogQuery reader for remote computer?

I'm using this code to readmy own event Log from my win7 Computer. EventLogQuery eventsQuery = new EventLogQuery("Security", PathType.LogName, queryString); eventsQuery.ReverseDirection = true; EventLogReader logReader = new…
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Simple way to backup event log on Windows Server

Is it possibile to create a simple way to backup the event log, with such as a batch file or a simple app ? I need to make it working on a customer's site, where the reference is an non-expert user. Thanks
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Windows callback function in Golang

I wanna make push subscription to Windows Event Log in Golang How exactly should I pass a callback function? EVT_SUBSCRIBE_CALLBACK is the pointer of function, like typedef DWORD ( WINAPI *EVT_SUBSCRIBE_CALLBACK)( EVT_SUBSCRIBE_NOTIFY_ACTION…
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How to write an event log entry with structured XML data?

Question: How to write an event log entry with structured XML data using PowerShell? My PowerShell script writes to the Windows event log using the Write-EventLog cmdlet. Currently I use the -Message parameter to set the event log…
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Using "Microsoft Windows Security Auditing" provider in real-time consumer with ETW (Event Tracing for Windows)

My task is to make an ETW real-time consumer with events provided by 'Microsoft Windows Security Auditing'. I made a simple controller and consumer application, basing on this example…
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