Export the Biztalk error to a file from the Biztalk project.

Question

Hi,
I have created console app in VS 2012 to export the biztalk errors from Event Viewer to a text file.
Here i have used eventlog class to fetch the application log errors on click of .Exe file it will generate the the text file.
So I need to integrate this .exe or .net code to Biztalk project. How can i integrate this one. Any idea on this - how can i achieve this.
Biztalk handles error but i need to export that biztalk error which occured in the application in to seperate text file in a location. Because  each time user needs to go to Adminstrative console then to EventViewer->Windows log->Application - >
to view the Biztalk error. In this case i need to export the errors to a text file from the project instead of going to view error in Admin Console. i need some code samples on how to make it.
But in .net we can achieve it using EventLog class to export the event viewer appplication log to a text file.As i said in first Earlier.Whether it can be integrate in to biztalk project through Custom Pipeline or any other way.
   

Answer 1

Hi Vijayan,
What is the objective of your requirement? Is this just to save user from going through Administrative console
à EventViewer->Windows log->Application - > Filter event for BizTalk error?
In this case you can create a custom event log for BizTalk and hold the events related to BizTalk in one node/category. So you’re users can directly to eventlog for
Biztalk error. (FYI event log can be access without going through BizTalk admin console). So users can view information/warning/error specific to BizTalk in one view
EventVieweràCustom
viewàBizTalk.
No automated steps required, just a simple one off configuration would do the trick. Read the following article on step-by-step guidance on achieving the same.
Creating a custom event log under Event
Viewer to log server events
Or is requirement is due to some access issues you want to accumulate/consolidate all the BizTalk errors into one place so user can see BizTalk evenlog info in one place like
a text file in a shared location, then the following article can help you to achieve the same.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2007/09/06/how-can-i-backup-an-event-log-to-a-text-file.aspx
But what do you mean by integrate above process in to BizTalk. When you mean by “Biztalk handles error but i need to export that biztalk error which occured in the application
in to seperate text file in a location”, are you looking to log the BizTalk “application” error/events i.e logging from your applications in BizTalk to a log file ? Then you can consider about using standard logging library like Enterprise
Library Logging block, or NLog, or log4net. log4net can fit
well comparing other logging framework.
Following references can help you on this context:
Write log file for Biztalk Logging
with log4net – Sample
Biztalk and Logging with log4net
But keep in mind that this is application logging, i.e. logging from your BizTalk applications like logging while processing the message in pipeline/orchestration. But this will
not log when one of the send port/receive location is stopped. These information are logged into eventlog.
If you’re looking for application level logging then also know about
BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework Controller. 
Or if you want to your existing console application which exports the eventlog to text file to be automated, then use the Windows schedule task to run your console application
periodically and let it export the errors to text file. You can console the export process in such a way that it can export the eventlog entries for the last one hour if you can configure the Windows schedule task to run every one hour to export the logs to
text file.
I have given various options, hope you can choose the one which suits your need best.
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