EventLog Properties related

Question

How to write C#.NET code for Log Size groupbox(in Properties window,Application eventlog,Eventviewer in WIndows XP OS) in EventViewer - Eventlog Properties.

Please provide me the code for the same.

Answer 1

I think what sukumar is asking is how can he programatically change the size of an event log in C#?

// Get the Event Log
this.eventLog = new EventLog();           
this.eventLog.Source = "Your.Log.Source";

// Configure the Event Log
// Set the log size
this.eventLog.MaximumKilobytes = 5120;
// Ower-write old records when log becomes full
this.eventLog.ModifyOverflowPolicy(OverflowAction.OverwriteAsNeeded, 0);

// Add the trace listner
Trace.Listeners.Add(new EventLogTraceListener(this.eventLog));

If you righ-click on an event log (eg the Application Log), and select properties. You will see there is a log size that you can set.

The problem is say you have a custom log that you are writing to. The overflow action is set to DoNotOverwrite (by default), if you don't change it to OverwriteAsNeeded, you will throw an exception when the log becomes full. System logs seem to have OverwriteOlder as a default.

Increasing the log size just gives you a bigger history...