C#

Application: MyTestWindowsService.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.ArgumentException
Stack:
   at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.CreateEventSource(System.Diagnostics.EventSourceCreationData)
   at MyTestWindowsService.MyTestWindowsService..ctor()
   at MyTestWindowsService.Program.Main()

Faulting application name: MyTestWindowsService.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x53f98df6
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17514, time stamp: 0x4ce7c78c
Exception code: 0xe0434352
Fault offset: 0x000000000000a49d
Faulting process id: 0x390
Faulting application start time: 0x01cfbf77f09ff94c
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\My Company Name\My Product Name\MyTestWindowsService.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 2e918d18-2b6b-11e4-8030-50b7c362601a

Jassim Rahma wrote:

The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.

System.Diagnostics.EventLog.CreateEventSource("MySource", "MyNewLog");

• source is an empty string ("") or null.
  
• logName is not a valid event log name. Event log names must consist of printable characters, and cannot include the characters '*', '?', or '\'.
  
• logName is not valid for user log creation. The event log names AppEvent, SysEvent, and SecEvent are reserved for system use.
  
• The log name matches an existing event source name.
  
• The source name results in a registry key path longer than 254 characters.
  
• The first 8 characters of logName match the first 8 characters of an existing event log name.
  
• The source cannot be registered because it already exists on the local computer.
  
• The source name matches an existing event log name.
  

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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.ServiceProcess;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Mail;

namespace MyTestWindowsService
{
    public partial class MyTestWindowsService : ServiceBase
    {
        public MyTestWindowsService()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            // if (!System.Diagnostics.EventLog.SourceExists("MyTestWindowsService"))
            // {
                // System.Diagnostics.EventLog.CreateEventSource("MySource", "MyNewLog");
            // }

            // eventLog1.Source = "MyEventLogSource";
            // eventLog1.Log = "MyNewLog Comes here!";
        }

        protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
        {
            // eventLog1.WriteEntry("In OnStart");
        }

        protected override void OnStop()
        {
            // eventLog1.WriteEntry("In onStop.");
        }

        protected override void OnContinue()
        {
            // eventLog1.WriteEntry("In OnContinue.");
        }

        private void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }

        private void timer2_Elapsed(object sender, System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e)
        {
            if (DateTime.Now.Minute == 30)
            {
                // eventLog1.WriteEntry("starting to send email.");

                try
                {
                    MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
                    SmtpClient SmtpServer = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com");

                    mail.From = new MailAddress("it@mydomain.com");
                    mail.To.Add("jassim@mydomain.com");
                    mail.Subject = "Test Mail";
                    mail.Body = "This is for testing SMTP mail from GMAIL";

                    SmtpServer.Port = 587;
                    SmtpServer.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("it@mydomain.com", "mypassword");
                    SmtpServer.EnableSsl = true;

                    SmtpServer.Send(mail);

                    // eventLog1.WriteEntry("email sent.");
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    // MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString());
                    // eventLog1.WriteEntry("failed sending email.");
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Jassim Rahma wrote:

the same problem

Jassim Rahma wrote:

but what's the best way to do it.

Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

Jassim Rahma wrote:

so if I have 10 clients then I'll need 10 dongles!

Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

Eddy Vluggen wrote:

then you're going to piss of both the users and the people who have to provide support