RE: EventLog Source still created after deleting all references to it

From: cmoore.afs (cmoore.afs_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/14/05


Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:41:04 -0800

I rebooted my box and that clears the current control set. That seemed to
fix the problem that I was having.

"Next" wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have a windows service that was suppose to write some events into its own
> EventLog.
>
> I created the EventLog using the component on VS 2003 toolbar
> Added an installer for it.
> Set all the appropriate properties to assign the new Source to a new log.
>
> For some reason installutil.exe created the source in the correct log. But
> then tried to create the same source in the Application log.
>
> This of course caused the installation to rollback because the source
> already existed.
>
> I couldn't figure out what was going on, so I deleted ALL of my eventlog
> instances and anything else that had to do with the EventLog.
>
> InstallUtil is now creating my new source in the Application log. I have
> searched, deleted, rebuilt,...but there are no references to any EventLog or
> my new source.
>
> Can anybody shed some light on where any other EventLog code could be?
>
> Aaron
>
>
>



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