Create an eventlog entry

Development, Sonstiges

For exception handling it is good practice to write errors to the eventlog.

EventLog.WriteEntry(“SharePoint.Error”, errorText, EventLogEntryType.Error);

Since SP1 for Windows Server 2003 “the normal user” is not allowed to write to the eventlog. James Kovacs wrote a great article about the problem.

(Remember to create your eventlog source, if you have your own!)

 1: if(!EventLog.SourceExists(“SharePoint.Error”, ".")) {

<span class=lnum>   2:  </span>    EventLog.CreateEventSource(<span class=str>"SharePoint.Error"</span>, <span class=str>"Application"</span>, <span class=str>"."</span>);
 3: }