The Code Project - Event Log RSS Feed Generator - ASP.NET

The Code Project - Event Log RSS Feed Generator - ASP.NET

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Introduction

How many times did you need to check the Event Log of your production web server but since you do not have permission to log on to that server, you had to wait for the administrator or webmaster to be available and open the Event Viewer for you?

In my experience, that happens very often. Often enough to let me think twice before writing code that logs messages to the Event Log. Unfortunately (or fortunately), the Event Log is still a very reliable place to log diagnostic messages, and even if we log to a custom database infrastructure, there's the chance that that database becomes unavailable and we need a fallback plan. The Event Log is usually a good last resort place to log important messages. Aside of that, many other applications and services already log their errors and warnings in the Event Log, so we will always be coming back to it at a point or another.

What is desirable here is a more flexible way to access the Event Log. More flexible but not less safe. We also need to protect our system messages from prying eyes.