Windows Service output not showing up in Event Log

Question

I am trying to follow this walkthrough.

I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Premium.

The only events I see in Server Explorer or in Event Viewer are "Service started successfully." and "Service stopped successfully."

Here is the service code:

namespace MyNewService
{
    public partial class MyNewService : ServiceBase
    {
        public MyNewService()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            if (!EventLog.SourceExists("MySource"))
            {
                EventLog.CreateEventSource("MySource", "MyNewLog");
            }
            eventLog1.Source = "MySource";
            eventLog1.Log = "MyNewLog";
        }

        protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
        {
            eventLog1.WriteEntry("In OnStart");
        }

        protected override void OnStop()
        {
            eventLog1.WriteEntry("In onStop.");
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

I had the same issue with Visual Studio 2010 Professional on Win 7 64. My newly compiled service was installed with InstallUtil.exe running as Administrator. It started and stopped correctly. No exceptions but no amount of refreshing the Event Viewer revealed a new event log. Fran71's suggestion worked for me: I closed the Event Viewer and reopened. Voilà, the newly created application log file appeared.