Interrogating Binary Data in the Windows Event Log

[ashwah]

Hi All,

I'm working in a directory enquiries call centre and am attempting to construct a piece of software which will provide a live feed of certain events. These events take place in the application (vStation), which is used to search our directory listings. These are CTI events (call_start, call_end, etc) and will provide the means to display the individuals performance stats in real-time.

So far I have successfully build a version which looks at the standard event details but in order to incorporate some of the more specific CTI event I need to be able to interpret the binary part of the eventlog. This is where I am stuck.

Not sure if this helps but there is a tool for viewing vStation events which is a built in HTML. The code in the eventlog viewer suggests I should convert the binary data into XML, although I don't know how to do this.

If anyone can suggest anything to point me in the right direction here I would massively appreciate it.

Thanks
Ashwah

 

[dilettante]

Converting it to XML just lets you pass it around or view it in a textual format. This can't interpret the binary data, only the logging application knows how to do that.