I would like to have our applications installation be able to check the
installed version and when I looked in the registry I did not find a key
with version information. Is there a key I can use for this purpose?
Thank you.

How can you prevent the logging of the message about EIF not being able to
create a backup file when it loads the configuration file or for that matter
turn off the logging of the fact that it successfully loaded. In fact, is it
possible to have it log only if it cannot load the

I have a Winapp developed using vb.net. I have a unique
requirement that I want the user to install this
application using web.
It looked simple. I created a virtual Directory and

I am new to EIF, I see WMI is one of the default sinks in
EIF, but I don't see example on how to use this sink. In
our case, we want to mark our business object as
instrumentation class , how can we publish it to WMI?

I've got a Web Setup project that I would like to specify
a specific installation directory. I can't seem to find
where I would do that. I also want to specify the
specific site (of the 12 or so that are running on the

I did install / build and configure as stated in the documentation (Generate
a .snk file, modify AssemblyInfo.cs, build, call regschema, call regsinks,
replace PublicKeyToken in .config files ), but when a run one of the samples
I always received the following error from the EIF ...

What is the usage pattern for creating custom events?
1) Should we extend the classes that are already in the provided schema with
additional properties and methods?
2) Should we create a new hierarchy of classes based on BaseEvent,

Group,
I am having a problem with running a test from a windows 2003 monitoring
server using ACT.  I get a Provider Load Failure (0x80041013).
I hit KB article Q318849 but the resolution there doesn't seem to apply to

Based on documentation of EIF, i'm able to come out with custom event
source, custom event sinks and able to make them work. So I started digging
further to know, how event source and event information are passed to event
sinks. I know some sort of serilization takes place. But I'm ...

When creating a custom event schema the EIF documentation suggest using a
namespace of:
MyCompany.EnterpriseInstrumentation.Schema
Is MyCompany the only part of the namespace we can change or can it be

The walk through for creating a custom event schema contains the following
note:
Note   Direct modification of the standard event schema is not recommended.
I am assuming that this applies to modifying Schema project that resides in

I have installed a machine with the following: Windows XP
SP1, Office 2003,
VS.Net 2003, Visual FoxPro 7 and 8 (Both Service Pack 1)
My issue is that when ever I try and record a new test

I notice the following definition under <eventCategories> in the EIF configuration file:
<eventCategory name="All Events" description="A category that contains all events.">
   <event type="System.Object" />
</eventCategory>

We have to provide a web service that is used by
thousands of users concurrently. How can we increase the
performance of the service. Is EIF useful in this case
anyway?

I have a simple question: if I create a new application and I would like to
use EIF (Enterprise Instrumentation Framework) is it possible to include
installation of EIF into my own installer? In short I want to know can I
distribute EIF with my own applications. If not then there is ...