Question

How do you change the source name when writing to the event viewer in C# language?

Currently have this

string cs = “Application”;

            if (!EventLog.SourceExists(cs))
            EventLog.CreateEventSource(cs, "ReceiveDaily");
            EventLog.WriteEntry(cs, message.Message, EventLogEntryType.Error);

If I change CS to anything else, I see a Security-Kerberos (0x7) popping up at my event viewer
It writes the error in the errorlog when I put “Application” though. But then the source is “Application”, which isn’t a very good description from where it comes …

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

As @Phil mentions, I don’t think that you can dynamically create event sources unless you are running in admin mode.

However, if you know the set of sources that your application needs, then you can pre-install them using a System.Diagnostics.EventLogInstaller and InstallUtil.exe. These sources will then be available to use by your application.

This has a good example of setting up the installer.