>Didn't realize you were using System.Diagnostics. The most likely cause of your problem is that you are attempting to read a log entry where the relevant log is not found. Try something like this to test (It's a C# console example but easily converted to VB):

>            EventLogReader loEventLogReader = new EventLogReader("Application");
>            EventLogRecord loEventLogRecord = null;
>
>            while (true)
>            {
>
>                try
>                {
>                    loEventLogRecord = (EventLogRecord)loEventLogReader.ReadEvent();
>                    if (loEventLogRecord == null)
>                    {
>                        Console.WriteLine("End of Log");
>                        break;
>                    }
>
>                    Int64 result = loEventLogRecord.Keywords ?? 0;
>                    Console.WriteLine(loEventLogRecord.TimeCreated.ToString()+": "+result.ToString());
>                    string final = string.Empty;
>                    foreach (string lcString in loEventLogRecord.KeywordsDisplayNames)
>                    {
>                        final += lcString + ",";
>                    }
>                    if (final.Length > 0)
>                    {
>                        final = final.Substring(0, final.Length - 1);
>                    }
>                    Console.WriteLine(final);
>                }
>                catch (Exception Ex)
>                {
>                    Console.WriteLine("EventLog not found at {0} for {1} ",loEventLogRecord.TimeCreated.ToString(), loEventLogRecord.ProviderName);
>                }
>            }
>            Console.ReadLine();

If you break on the exception you will see that Keywords and KeywordsDisplayNames both throw an exception....

Thanks

The event log, in such situation, is found as I can collect dozen of other properties. So, globalizing all this into a Try/Catch to avoid that situation will probably not change anything.

That specific line of declaration translates to this in VB.Net:

Dim result As Int64 = If(loEventLogRecord.Keywords, 0)

I am not sure about that syntax. Is it that part of the code you wanted to mention that could resolve the issue?