EventLog.WriteEntry(...) Cause Exception on Windows 98/98SE

[John Lee]

Hi,

Why EventLog.WriteEntry() works fine with Windows ME (where is the message
being written or just ignored?) and throw exception on Windows98 and 98SE.
Should it be handled at Framework level?

Thanks!

John

 

[Robbie Harris]

I believe System.Diagnostics.EventLog doesnt support '98 on account of
it not having one...

r.

 

[Mark]

(e-mail address removed) (Robbie Harris) wrote in

I believe System.Diagnostics.EventLog doesnt support '98 on account of
it not having one...

r.

That's what he said. However, it works on ME, which also doesn't have one.

As for the answer, I couldn't tell you.

Mark

 

[Robbie Harris]

oops - should have read the post more carefully. the framework
*should* raise a PlatformNotSupportedException exceptions for both 98
and ME, as in:

try {
EventLog obj = new EventLog("Application", ".", "MyApp");
obj.WriteEntry("Foo")
}
catch (PlatformNotSupportedException ex) {
//write to a file or something
}

see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/framewkwinsupp.asp

r.