Where can I find a good example of ReportEvent function usage?

Question

As with most "legacy" MSDN pages, the page for ReportEvent has too little information for me to make much sense of it. I've tried searching, but can't find a good, clean, simple example of the function's usage. Could anyone suggest one?

Answer 1

As I recall it is a pain to set up correctly - you need to add messages to you application using the Message Compiler - if you skip this you won't see useful messages only error codes. Take a look at Creating a Windows NT Service by Using ATL for an example

Answer 2

I ended up using this:

HANDLE eventLog;
WORD type;
const char* msg;

// ... snip ...

ReportEvent(eventLog, type, 0, 1, NULL, 1, 0, &LPCTSTR(msg), NULL);

Seems to work well enough.