What is the simplest way to query event logs for message contents in C#?

Question

I'm interested in writing some code to query the Windows Event Log for specific error message contents, as described in this MSDN article. However, I'm not a big fan of the mechanic of basically hand-rolling XPATH or a custom event view in the code...is there a simpler way of doing this? A LINQ provider perhaps?

Answer 1

Maybe someone will find this useful...

I'm using LinqPad to query Security Event Log on remote machine. It working a little bit slowly but produces result I need. Query I'm using:

EventLog elog = new EventLog();
elog.MachineName = "REMOTE MACHINE NAME";
elog.Log = "Security";
var query = 
    from EventLogEntry e in elog.Entries
    where e.EventID == 560 // EVENT CODE (FILE DELETION IN MY CASE)
    && e.UserName == @"DOMAIN\USERNAME"
    && e.Message.Contains("TEXT INSIDE THE MESSAGE")
    select e;

query.Dump();