Write to IIS/Event Log File ?

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From: Angelos Karantzalis (akarantzalis_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:14:31 +0200

Hi y'all,

   recently I've come across a situation where a web service needs to deal
with an exception that might arise, originating from a COM+ component. It
then returns an int value (please don't ask me why) indicating that there
was something wrong with the requested operation.

Assuming that I don't really know all the posible exceptions that might
arise from the COM+ layer, and therefore I can't accurately return an int
identifying the exception, I need a way to log the actual exception trace,
either in the web service, or in the COM+ layer.

Writting to the event log threw me Security Exceptions, because ASPNET
doesn't have write access to the event log. Since the COM+ level runs under
the same identity apparently, I can't do it there either ..

So, question: how can I log either into the IIS Log, or the Event log from a
web service ?

Cheers,
Angel
O:]

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