[Mono-dev] local file based EventLog implementation

[Kornél Pál]

>> On Windows it is required. OK, it can have any name but Windows API
>> requires a message DLL and no message DLL can be specified using
>> managed API so this is transparent to managed applications.
>
>It is not required. I have it working perfectly fine without one.

It sounds weird to me. Could you be more specific. (For example using some 
sample code.)

>This is supported in .NET 2.0 by using EventLog.WriteEvent overload.
>Also, the CreateEventSource overload that takes an EventSourceCreation
>instance supports setting a custom message DLL.

Right, I didn't noticed this addition to 2.0, sorry for the 
desinformation.:) If you want full compatibility, PE files with MessageTable 
resource (same format as on Windows) should be used. There is no code so 
there is no reason to use different format.

Kornél