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POWill this code create an EventLog at installation time?
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copied!<p>Following the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3176337/any-reason-id-get-a-nullreference-exception-on-windows-7-only/3176366#3176366">advice of Henk</a>, I've created a Setup Project in VS10 with the aim of adding a custom action. This custom action will hopefully add an EventLog whilst running as admin (ie during installation) rather than having my app throw an exception on OSes with UAC.</p> <p>Unfortunately, I don't ordinarily have access to an OS that uses UAC. The next time I do, I hope the installation will go smoothly.</p> <p>With that in mind, is there anything in the below code which is obviously wrong?</p> <pre><code>using System; using System.Diagnostics; namespace EventLogCreator { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { switch (args[0]) { case "-i": if (!EventLog.Exists("SSD Log")) { Console.WriteLine("Log not found, creating."); EventLog.CreateEventSource("setup", "SSD Log"); } break; case "-u": if (EventLog.Exists("SSD Log")) { Console.WriteLine("Log found, removing."); EventLog.Delete("SSD Log"); } break; } } } } </code></pre> <p>The output of this project is sucked into the setup project. I then have two custom actions:</p> <ol> <li>On install with "-i" as an argument</li> <li>On uninstall with "-u" as an argument</li> </ol> <p>I'm not expecting a free code review, but I'm venturing into the unknown here, so I'd appreciate a heads up if I'm humping the wrong bit of trash.</p> <p><em>PS I'm particularly concerned that I'm specifying the actual log name, but not an actual source. Will this matter?</em> </p>

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