Question

I have a console app that will be running through a scheduled task and what i’d like to do is have it write to an Event Log in a catch block. I’ve tried using

EventLog.WriteEntry("My App Name","Error Message - " ex.ToString() );

but for some reason it is not writing the error.
Am i doing something wrong?

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to make sure the event-source exists, e.g.:

if (!EventLog.SourceExists("MySource"))
    EventLog.CreateEventSource("MySource","Application");

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307024