Beginning .Net , C# programming : Read event logs and display with C# Examples and VB.Net Examples

You are able to reading event log from .Net application.
We are using "EventLog" class of "System.Diagnostics" namespace.
There are three categories of event log available Application, Security and System.

Here is example for this.
In this example we take one combobox, this combobox contains three values "Application", "Security" and "System". You can select any one category to read event log and display it's result in grid.

ASPX Code : 

        <asp:DropDownList runat="server" ID="cboEventLog">
            <asp:ListItem Text="Application" Value="Application"></asp:ListItem>
            <asp:ListItem Text="Security" Value="Security"></asp:ListItem>
            <asp:ListItem Text="System" Value="System"></asp:ListItem>
        </asp:DropDownList>
        <asp:Button runat="server" ID="btnGetEventLog" Text="Get Event Log" OnClick="btnGetEventLog_Click" />
        <br /><br />
        <asp:GridView ID="gvEventLog" runat="server" AllowPaging="true" PageSize="5" Width="100px" >
        </asp:GridView>

C# Examples :

        EventLog objEL = new EventLog();
        objEL.Source = cboEventLog.SelectedItem.Text;
        gvEventLog.DataSource = objEL.Entries;
        gvEventLog.DataBind();

VB.net Examples :

        Dim objEL As New EventLog()
        objEL.Source = cboEventLog.SelectedItem.Text
        gvEventLog.DataSource = objEL.Entries
        gvEventLog.DataBind()

Output :

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