How to find Date and Time from Event Viewer in C#?

Question

How to find Date and Time from Event Viewer and insert it into database table in SQL-Server using C#?
Please suggest me is it possible through like- windows service or console application or windows form or api ?

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Answer generated by ChatGPT. To find the date and time of an event in the Event Viewer using C# you can use the EventLog class from the System.Diagnostics namespace. This class allows you to read events from event logs including the system event log on the local or a remote computer. Here is an example of how you can use the EventLog class to retrieve the date and time of an event: using System; using System.Diagnostics; EventLog log = new EventLog(System); foreach (EventLogEntry entry in log.Entries) { // Check if the entry is the event you are looking for if (entry.Source == MyEventSource && entry.InstanceId == 12345) { Console.WriteLine(Date:  + entry.TimeGenerated); Console.WriteLine(Time:  + entry.TimeGenerated.TimeOfDay); } }

Aravind Govindaraj · Answer

Please find the snippet to read the event viewer using C#. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3147972/read-event-log-in-c-sharp It's up to your business use case which way you want to consume event viewer. My suggestion is to create a separate library to read the event viewer something like EventCollector which now will consume it from EventViewer maybe tomorrow you are relaying on a different source. On top of that you can switch to whichever way you want. may be console/win service/form/API. hope this helps you