Event Log: create event source and display
Imports System
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Diagnostics
Public Class MainClass
Shared Sub Main()
Dim logStatus As System.Diagnostics.EventLog
logStatus = New System.Diagnostics.EventLog
If Not EventLog.SourceExists("StatusSource") Then
EventLog.CreateEventSource("StatusSource", "StatusLog")
Console.WriteLine("Creating event source")
End If
' Set the EventLog component's source.
logStatus.Source = "StatusSource"
' Write a Starting message to the log.
logStatus.WriteEntry(Now & "> " & "Starting", _
EventLogEntryType.Information)
For Each log_entry As EventLogEntry In logStatus.Entries
Console.WriteLine(log_entry.Message)
Next log_entry
End Sub
End Class
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