c# System Event logging

Here is a simple c# method to write errors to the event log which captures the calling class and method and an error and writes them to the event log for centralized error reporting.

I don't know about you but I hate to have to track down where someone writes error messages too, so I of course encourage my employees to write any issues to an event log.

This method returns false if it fails to write to the event log.

public static bool Log_writeError(string sMessage)

{

StackTrace stackTrace = new StackTrace();

StackFrame stackFrame = stackTrace.GetFrame(1);

MethodBase methodBase = stackFrame.GetMethod();

EventLog myLog = new EventLog();

myLog.Source = methodBase.ReflectedType.FullName + "." + methodBase.Name;

myLog.Log = "Application";

try

{

myLog.WriteEntry(sMessage, EventLogEntryType.Error);

}

catch

{

return false;

}

return true;

}

And now we make the call:

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

Program p = new Program();

p.logentry();

Console.ReadKey();

}

public void logentry()

{

if (!logger.Log_writeError("Test Message"))

Console.WriteLine("Failed to write to event log");

}

}

and we can now see an entry for our Source in the Application log: