I agree about the strangeness.

From my somewhat limited understanding of VS Analyzer (& much better
understanding of EIF) you could do the following:

1. There is something called the WMI Event Bridge - that allows VS Analyzer
to capture WMI events. From this regard EIF events output through WMI could
be caught in VS Analyzer.

2. In the VS Analyzer SDK there are managed code samples showing how to
raise events into the VS Analyzer system. You could write an EIF event Sink
that outputs into VS Analyzer. From memory the VS Analyzer event doesnt
have an event schema like EIF, it consisted of a single event with a bunch
of standard properties that you would set, and a bunch of custom properties
(Field1, Field2, Field3, etc that you can put in anything you want). I was
told that interestly enough, you dont have to do this real time - you could
say write a tool that read in a trace log file, and for each event output
an VS Analyzer event. As long as the time stamp was correct, the VS
Analyzer would display the events correctly.

Here are the links that I've managed to find on MSDN:
re: 1)  
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsavs70/htm
l/veoriwmieventsubscription.asp
re: 2)  
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/anlyzsdk/ht
ml/vsoriVisualStudioAnalyzerSDK.asp

Im not sure where the VS Analyzer SDK can be downloaded from.
A definite got-ya is the confusion arising from the VS for Applications
also using the VSA anagram.

I hope this helps

Mike

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