Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow

Questions tagged [event-log]

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

1270 questions
7
votes
4 answers

Unhandled IIS Exception - How can I track it down

I am seeing the following error in the event log. It is coming from our ASP.Net application. I am having trouble tracking down what is causing the error. Any suggestions appreciated! OS: Windows Server 2000 WebServer: IIS 6 Application: ASP.Net…
James
  • 7,877
  • 7
  • 42
  • 57
7
votes
1 answer

Can an Outlook addin write to the system event log?

I have an outlook add-in developed with VSTO 2010 that I want to write some event logging. While debugging I can get this to work by simply doing the following: if (!EventLog.SourceExists(ADDIN_FRIENDLY_NAME)) { …
user1715925
  • 607
  • 9
  • 26
7
votes
4 answers

What do the details of an APPCRASH message mean?

I am experiencing an APPCRASH from my C# application. The Runtime gives an error message of "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way". Then, when I click okay I get a "MyApplication has stopped working" message…
user1646801
  • 259
  • 2
  • 7
7
votes
3 answers

Using EventLog in ClickOnce application

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…
Fr33dan
  • 4,227
  • 3
  • 35
  • 62
7
votes
4 answers

How to convert .evtx eventlog to csv

My windows service needs to save the contents of one eventlog to a file. This is done by EventLogSession.ClearLog. However, i cannot force it to save the eventlog to CSV directly. The saved format is EVTX. EventLogSession els = new…
real_yggdrasil
  • 1,213
  • 4
  • 14
  • 27
7
votes
4 answers

How to direct the EventLogTraceListener to create in a specific Log

The following listener will create an event entry when the Trace.WriteLine is called. If the source does not exist he will create it in the default log channel which is 'Application' . I want to specify another default Log channel but after…
MichaelD
  • 8,377
  • 10
  • 42
  • 47
7
votes
2 answers

Windows EventLog Permissions

What permissions do I need to give a User for them to be able to write to the Windows EventLog? I have an ASP.NET application that needs to impersonate a user and that impersonated user must be able to write the event log
James Alexander
  • 6,132
  • 10
  • 42
  • 56
6
votes
2 answers

How To Disable .NET Event Log Warnings?

Per our policy we are no longer allowed to write to event log, so I removed all my event log code from writing to the event log, which works, however I keep getting random ASP.NET 4.0 Warnings from the errors, even though I have code in my…
jaekie
  • 2,283
  • 4
  • 30
  • 52
6
votes
1 answer

Windows EventLog cannot exceed 32766 characters

when i write log to windows eventlog: System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry("SourceName", a_long_string); i got the following exception: Log entry string is too long. A string written to the event log cannot exceed 32766 characters. then i…
marstone
  • 686
  • 1
  • 10
  • 23
6
votes
3 answers

Windows Service output not showing up in Event Log

I am trying to follow this walkthrough. I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Premium. The only events I see in Server Explorer or in Event Viewer are "Service started successfully." and "Service stopped successfully." Here is the service code: namespace…
feenst
  • 61
  • 1
  • 2
6
votes
3 answers

How to write event log using vbscript

I want to write event log when this vbscript run. How to i can? Thanks for any help.
Emree
  • 85
  • 1
  • 1
  • 5
6
votes
1 answer

Diagnosing CLR errors in Windows Event Viewer

We have an .NET desktop application that crashed in production. How do we diagnose the error? I'd like to know the type of exception that occurred, the error message, and the stack trace. Because the exception wasn't handled by our code, we received…
Judah Gabriel Himango
  • 58,906
  • 38
  • 158
  • 212
6
votes
1 answer

How to get event log files from Azure app service without Cloud Explorer?

I have an Azure app service. In Visual Studio 2019 I can do this to get event logs from it: Open Cloud Exlorer window (View -> Cloud Explorer). Log in with my Azure credentials. Expand subscription, then resource group, then app service. Expand the…
Claus Appel
  • 1,015
  • 10
  • 28
6
votes
3 answers

log4net doesn't log in Windows Event Viewer

I would like to log in the Windows Event Viewer using log4net. I created a Console Application (.NET Framework 4), I added the reference log4net.dll, I put the following code in my App.config:
Nico
  • 575
  • 3
  • 8
  • 19
6
votes
5 answers

Is there a way to tell which EventLog caused the EntryWritten event in C#?

I'm working on a web application that shows event logs data, similar to Event Viewer. The application also has to provide a way for users to subscribe to event logs and receive notifications when an entry is written to subscribed logs, using a web…
markhan777
  • 63
  • 4
1 2 3
…
84 85