ReportEvent generating incorrect error description

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Hi,

I have an application in which I write events to event log viewer.
Before writing the events, I extract the NT Event information from the
message file. Example: I parse the Event Message file for Outlook and
extract the NT Event information. I get the event message file path
from the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application\O­utlook

When I get the event information, I need to manually generate or write
that information into event log viewer. The information such as event
id, event desc and the severity.
I use the below API to write to event log:

void LogErrorMessage (HANDLE hSource, DWORD errcode, WORD errtype, char

*szMsg)
{
char *szList[1];
szList[0]=szMsg;
ReportEvent(hSource, EVENTLOG_INFORMATION_TYPE, 0, errcode,
NULL, 0,
NULL, (LPCTSTR*)szList[0], NULL );
}

Now when I execute the above function passing correct values, sometimes

I get the proper description written in the event log but sometimes I
get the below error description:

The description for Event ID ( 16 ) in Source ( Outlook ) cannot be
found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry
information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote
computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this
description; see Help and Support for details. The following
information is part of the event: The event log file is corrupt.

I want to retrieve the event information successfully which is working
fine but writing the event to APPLICATION log is failing SOMETIMES.

Whats going wrong here? I have similar utility "SMGENIE.exe" which
successfully writes to event viewer.

Thanks,
Regards,
PI

.

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