Can some one please post the URL for EIF hands-on lab
manual. I heard about it and work like to work on the
examples it provides.
I would certainly appreaciate your help

i installed the updated version of of the .net sdk 1.1.
however, when i view the about screen in Visual
Studio .NET 2002, it still states the version of
Microsoft.NET is 1.0XXX.

I am trying to undestand and use EIF.
problem is it does not write the log message in windows event log.
here is what i have done.
1)Created a windows app

how does the EIF eventing integrates with MS Operations
Manager? Is there some kind of documentation or white
paper?
Regards, Alex

.NET is used with Enterprise Services to provide Object
Pooling, Queued Components, Object Pooling, Transactions,
and Synchronization.  My question pertains to the
relationship between Transactions, Synchronization, and

When I attempt to create a new data connection through the
Server Explorer of my .NET project, I get the following
error:
ADO Error:'

Before we have EIF, we use EMAB for exception management
and it works excellently, now we have EIF as the
framework and recently Logging Applcation Block come to
play, they all can be used for exception management, but

When a event sink writes event information to a datastore (event log, trace
log, wmi) is the output format of the event's information controlled by the
event sink itself?  Or is this provided somewhere else?
Steve Miller | Solution Developer

The documentation talks about associating the
EnterpriseInstrumentation.config file with an application under various
scenarios (e.g., ASP.NET web application, COM+ server application, etc).  If
an assembly is defined as a class library (DLL) is there a way to associate

I'm planning to use Tracelogs . Is there anyway I can create Tracelog files
at run time , since planning to create tracelogs per session(web project)
and set appropriate tracelog config entries?

The trace manager windows service configuration includes an attribute called
"logFileMode" that basically defines what happens when the log file size
grows up to maximum file size.  Both the available options (i.e., logging
stops when file size is equal to maximum or new log entries ...

Is there any specific reason why the logging application block requires .NET
f/w 1.1?  EIF runs on 1.0 so is there some way we can make the logging block
work on 1.0?
Secondly, I am not quite sure why the concept of log levels were added at

Not sure where to post this...I'll try here first...
We recently upgraded out web server to use 1.1 Framework. We use the Crystal
Webview control embedded on an ASPX page. All worked fine.
However, when we upgraded our versions of VSNET to the 2003 version and then

Is it possible to playback a recorded test (from Microsoft Application
Center Test) in a visible Internet Explorer, so that I can view the
state of the session after the manuevers of the test have been
performed? How?

Wonder if anyone tried ACT on Java Servlet(websphere
application server)?  Seemed to work for me except for JSP
redirect/forwarding.  Any comments?