ASP.NET Core EventLog provider

Question

I have a project using .NET Framework ASP.NET Core 2.0, and want to implement logging to windows event log, like i read here<\/a>

public class Program
{
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            BuildWebHost(args).Run();
        }

        public static IWebHost BuildWebHost(string[] args) =>
            WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
            .ConfigureLogging((hostingContext, logging) =>
            {
                logging.AddConfiguration(hostingContext.Configuration.GetSection("Logging"));
                logging.AddEventSourceLogger();
                logging.AddConsole();
            })
            .UseStartup<Startup>()
            .Build();
    }

Answer 1

logging.AddEventSourceLogger()

is for Event Tracing .

For the Event Log , you want to use:

logging.AddEventLog()

Answer 2

Install Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.EventLog from Nuget.

Include the Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.EventLog on the program.cs file

Then logging.AddEventLog() will be possible and consequently you will be able to achieve your goal

Answer 3

This works for me against net5.0:

 public static IHostBuilder CreateHostBuilder(string[] args) =>
    Host.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
        .ConfigureLogging(logging =>
                            {
                                logging.ClearProviders();
                                logging.AddEventLog(new EventLogSettings()
                                        {
                                            SourceName = ".NET Runtime",
                                            LogName = "Application",
                                        });
                            }
                         )
        .ConfigureWebHostDefaults(webBuilder =>
        {
            webBuilder.UseStartup<Startup>();
        });