"Mike Hayton [MS]" wrote:

> By default, EIF:
> - reports errors loading the EI.config file to the Windows Event Log
> - only reports errors in raising events out to perf counters.
>
> If you change the corresponding <eventSource> internalExceptionHandler
> attribute from "ignore" to "report" then it will update the perf counter
> and output the error to the Windows Event Log. There is also a "throw"
> setting (throws the exception up into the instrumented app) - for this to
> work the <instrumentedApp> mode must be set to "debug".
>
> The exceptions thrown should help in the debugging along with the perf
> counters. The App Block you'll have the source code for and so if you
> ensure the the debugger is loading the corresponding pdb files - it should
> be able to trace into the AppBlock source. The EIF source code is not
> publicly available. But you'll be able to get method names from exceptions
> and you might want to play around with the reverse engineering the code to
> better understand it.
> see
> http://www.blong.com/Conferences/DCon2003/ReverseEngineering/ReverseEngineer
> ing.htm - I'd recommend reflector http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Mike
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> |
> | Mike,
> | The GAC was having a older version of App Block dll and once i
> | regschema/segsinks the newer version one, it works great. It would have
> been
> | great if there was any error thrown in the windows event viewer.Thanks a
> lot
> | for your response.
> | Just curious, is there any efficient way to debug the events once
> published
> | into the EIF framework?Iam trying to debug when the XSLT transformation
> | happens and when it tries to insert the data in the database
> | Thanks again
> | Raj
> |
> | "Raj" wrote:
> |
> | > Iam trying to send EventTypes
> | > Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Logging.Schema.AdminMessageEvent to one
> table and
> | > send EventTypes
> Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Logging.Schema.AuditMessageEvent
> | > to a different table.
> | > When I use a filter as below, it doesnt log anything for
> AdminMessageEvent
> | > .........................
> | > <eventSourceRef name="Application">
> | > <filterRef name="defaultApplicationElementFilter" />
> | > </eventSourceRef>
> | > .........................
> | > <filter name="defaultApplicationElementFilter" description="A
> default
> | > filter for the Application event sources.">
> | > <eventCategoryRef name="Admin Events">
> | > <eventSinkRef name="sqlSink" />
> | > </eventCategoryRef>
> | > </filter>
> | > .........................
> | > <eventCategories>
> | > <eventCategory name="Admin Events" description="This event category
> | > contains Admin Event Types">
> | > <event
> | > type="Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Logging.Schema.AdminMessageEvent,
> | > Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Logging.Schema, Version=1.0.0.0,
> Culture=neutral,
> | > PublicKeyToken=e57d9cc0f060bdb9" />
> | > </eventCategory>
> | > <eventCategories>
> | > .........................
> | >
> | > but when I use something as below, it logs in the table
> | >
> | > .........................
> | > <eventSourceRef name="Application">
> | > <filterRef name="defaultApplicationElementFilter" />
> | > </eventSourceRef>
> | > .........................
> | > <filter name="defaultApplicationElementFilter" description="A
> default
> | > filter for the Application event sources.">
> | > <eventCategoryRef name="All Events">
> | > <eventSinkRef name="sqlSink" />
> | > </eventCategoryRef>
> | > </filter>
> | > .........................
> | > <eventCategories>
> | > <eventCategory name="All Events" description="This event category
> | > contains Admin Event Types">
> | > <event
> | > type="Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Logging.Schema.AdminMessageEvent,
> | > Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Logging.Schema, Version=1.0.0.0,
> Culture=neutral,
> | > PublicKeyToken=e57d9cc0f060bdb9" />
> | > </eventCategory>
> | > <eventCategories>
> | > .........................
> | >
> | > Seems like its not able to find the event type properly even though its
> set
> | > correctly and when I use a debugger, I find the message generated as
> below
> | > which has the Event Type defined correctly
> | >
> | > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><event:LogEvent
> | > xmlns:event="urn:2B9EF1B7-CBEC-4da3-9443-BF4C701DAEA7"
> | > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> | > type="Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Logging.Schema.AdminMessageEvent"
> | > id="553b948c-3596-4d53-9528-caa797e76486"><event:NameValuePair
> name="Message"
> | > value="Admin Message Event to be published" /><event:NameValuePair
> | > name="ApplicationName" value="-Null-" /><event:NameValuePair
> | > name="EventSourceInstance" value="cf49fd4d-254c-44ec-85bc-216438df184a"
> | > /><event:NameValuePair name="EventId"
> | > value="553b948c-3596-4d53-9528-caa797e76486" /><event:NameValuePair
> | > name="EventSourceName" value="Application" /><event:NameValuePair
> | > name="EventSequenceNumber" value="1" /><event:NameValuePair
> | > name="EventSchemaVersion" value="1.0.0.0" /><event:NameValuePair
> | > name="TimeStamp" value="12/29/2004 5:51:03 PM" /><event:NameValuePair
> | > name="AppDomainName" value="BasicSqlSinkSample.exe"
> /><event:NameValuePair
> | > name="MachineName" value="JOSEPH" /><event:NameValuePair
> | > name="RootRequestName" value="" /><event:NameValuePair
> | > name="RootRequestInstance" value="" /><event:NameValuePair
> | > name="RequestInstance" value="" /><event:NameValuePair
> name="RequestName"
> | > value="" /><event:NameValuePair name="RequestSequenceNumber" value="0"
> | > /><event:NameValuePair name="EventLogEntryTypeID" value="4"
> | > /><event:NameValuePair name="PopulatingEventInfoForFirstTime"
> value="False"
> | > /><event:NameValuePair name="ApplicationLogLevel" value="2"
> | > /><event:NameValuePair name="EventPublishLogLevel" value="1"
> | > /><event:NameValuePair name="FormatterName" value="-Null-"
> /></event:LogEvent>
> | >
> | >
> | > Any thoughts?
> | > Thanks
> | > Raj
> |
>