When writing to the Windows Event Log, is it possible to create a custom link text for URLs?

Posted by thomasnguyencom on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by thomasnguyencom
Published on 2010-12-14T15:23:10Z Indexed on 2010/12/22 0:54 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 289

Filed under:

c#

|

eventlog

|

windows-event-log

I'm just using the vanilla EventLog.WriteEntry method:

        EventLog.WriteEntry(EVENT_SOURCE, message, EventLogEntryType.Error, id);

Here's how the message shows up in the Event Log, with the links in the parenthesis working just fine, but it's ugly:

Example 1:

Please contact us via email (mailto:[email protected]) or online (http://example.com).

Here's how the message shows up in the Event Log, with the HTML "markup", doesn't even handle it:

Example 2:

Please contact us via <a href="mailto:[email protected]">email</a> or <a href="http://example.com">online</a>.

This is how I would like the message to show up, but with "email" and "online" as the link texts:

Example 3:

Please contact us via email or online.

I've tried the <a href>...</a> HTML tags with no success.

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about c#

.NET WebRequest.PreAuthenticate not quite what it sounds like

as seen on West-Wind - Search for 'West-Wind'
I’ve run into the problem a few times now: How to pre-authenticate .NET WebRequest calls doing an HTTP call to the server – essentially send authentication credentials on the very first request instead of waiting for a server challenge first? At first glance this sound like it should be easy:… >>> More
HttpWebRequest and Ignoring SSL Certificate Errors

as seen on West-Wind - Search for 'West-Wind'
Man I can't believe this. I'm still mucking around with OFX servers and it drives me absolutely crazy how some these servers are just so unbelievably misconfigured. I've recently hit three different 3 major brokerages which fail HTTP validation with bad or corrupt certificates at least according to… >>> More
Dynamic Type to do away with Reflection

as seen on West-Wind - Search for 'West-Wind'
The dynamic type in C# 4.0 is a welcome addition to the language. One thing I’ve been doing a lot with it is to remove explicit Reflection code that’s often necessary when you ‘dynamically’ need to walk and object hierarchy. In the past I’ve had a number of ReflectionUtils that used string based expressions… >>> More
The dynamic Type in C# Simplifies COM Member Access from Visual FoxPro

as seen on West-Wind - Search for 'West-Wind'
I’ve written quite a bit about Visual FoxPro interoperating with .NET in the past both for ASP.NET interacting with Visual FoxPro COM objects as well as Visual FoxPro calling into .NET code via COM Interop. COM Interop with Visual FoxPro has a number of problems but one of them at least got a lot… >>> More
Finding a Relative Path in .NET

as seen on West-Wind - Search for 'West-Wind'
Here’s a nice and simple path utility that I’ve needed in a number of applications: I need to find a relative path based on a base path. So if I’m working in a folder called c:\temp\templates\ and I want to find a relative path for c:\temp\templates\subdir\test.txt I want to receive back subdir\test… >>> More

Related posts about eventlog

deleting eventlog

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hey, How can I delete a specific eventlog entry (say id 130 with source: Myprog) or delete all eventlogs from a specific source without deleting the whole eventlogs under "Application" folder? public static void deleteEvent() { string logName; if (EventLog.SourceExists(SOURCE)) … >>> More
Reading EventLog C# Errors

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I have this code in my ASP.NET application written in C# that is trying to read the eventlog, but it returns an error. EventLog aLog = new EventLog(); aLog.Log = "Application"; aLog.MachineName = "."; // Local machine foreach (EventLogEntry entry in aLog.Entries) { if (entry.Source.Equals("tvNZB")) … >>> More
get-eventlog issue

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I wanted to get a quick report of some log entries I saw on a server, so I ran: Get-Eventlog -logname system -newest 10 -computer fs1 | fl I got events back however the descriptions were all wrong. Here's an example: Index : 1260055 EntryType : Warning InstanceId : 2186936367 Message : The… >>> More
Access to Windows 7 log from a remote machine

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
I'm trying to access with EventViewer (from a Windows XP Prof) to a remote machine with Windows 7 (Seven). Before I started the Service "RemoteRegistry" I received an "Access Denied". After started the service I can connet to the machine Log (in EventViewer app) but when i clik on any log as "Application"… >>> More
logparser not matching on a LIKE pattern

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi I seem to have the strangest problem. I am using logparser to search an event log for some text that I know is there (i copied and pasted the string from the event into the sql search string). But the sql LIKE statement is returning a empty results. But other LIKE statments seem to be working file… >>> More