Output Format Objects

Output Format objects provide programmatic access to the output formats supported by Log Parser.

Output Format objects are instantiated with the ProgId and the .NET COM wrapper class names specified in the following table:

Output Format	ProgId	.NET COM Wrapper Class Name
CHART	MSUtil.LogQuery.ChartOutputFormat	COMChartOutputContextClassClass
CSV	MSUtil.LogQuery.CSVOutputFormat	COMCSVOutputContextClassClass
DATAGRID	MSUtil.LogQuery.DataGridOutputFormat	COMDataGridOutputContextClassClass
IIS	MSUtil.LogQuery.IISOutputFormat	COMIISOutputContextClassClass
NAT	MSUtil.LogQuery.NativeOutputFormat	COMNativeOutputContextClassClass
SQL	MSUtil.LogQuery.SQLOutputFormat	COMSQLOutputContextClassClass
SYSLOG	MSUtil.LogQuery.SYSLOGOutputFormat	COMSYSLOGOutputContextClassClass
TPL	MSUtil.LogQuery.TemplateOutputFormat	COMTemplateOutputContextClassClass
TSV	MSUtil.LogQuery.TSVOutputFormat	COMTSVOutputContextClassClass
W3C	MSUtil.LogQuery.W3COutputFormat	COMW3COutputContextClassClass
XML	MSUtil.LogQuery.XMLOutputFormat	COMXMLOutputContextClassClass

After instantiating an output format object, an application can set the output format parameters and use the object as an argument to the ExecuteBatch method of the LogQuery object.

Methods

The Output Format objects do not expose methods.

Properties

The Output Format objects expose read/write properties with the same names and capitalization as the parameters accepted by the corresponding Log Parser output format.
For example, the MSUtil.LogQuery.CSVOutputFormat output format object exposes a "headers" property that controls the headers parameter of the CSV output format.
The value type accepted and returned by an output format object property depends on the nature of the values that can be specified for the output format parameter, as described by the following table:

Parameter values	Property value type	JScript Example
"ON"/"OFF" values	Boolean	oCSVOutputFormat.tabs = true;
Enumeration values (e.g. "ON"/"OFF"/"AUTO")	String	oCSVOutputFormat.oDQuotes = "OFF";
String values	String	oCSVOutputFormat.oTsFormat ="yyyy-MM-dd";
Numeric values	Number	oCSVOutputFormat.oCodepage = -1;

For more information on Output Format Parameters, see the Output Formats Reference.

Examples

JScript example:

var oLogQuery = new ActiveXObject("MSUtil.LogQuery");

// Create EVT Input Format object
var oEVTInputFormat = new ActiveXObject("MSUtil.LogQuery.EventLogInputFormat");

// Create CSV Output Format object
var oCSVOutputFormat = new ActiveXObject("MSUtil.LogQuery.CSVOutputFormat");

// Set output format parameters
oCSVOutputFormat.tabs = true;
oCSVOutputFormat.oDQuotes = "OFF";
oCSVOutputFormat.oTsFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd";
oCSVOutputFormat.oCodepage = -1;

// Create query text
var strQuery = "SELECT TimeGenerated, Message INTO Output.csv FROM System";

// Execute query
oLogQuery.ExecuteBatch( strQuery, oEVTInputFormat, oCSVOutputFormat );

VBScript example:

Dim oLogQuery
Dim oEVTInputFormat
Dim oCSVOutputFormat
Dim strQuery
Dim oRecordSet

Set oLogQuery = CreateObject("MSUtil.LogQuery")

' Create EVT Input Format object
Set oEVTInputFormat = CreateObject("MSUtil.LogQuery.EventLogInputFormat")

' Create CSV Output Format object
Set oCSVOutputFormat = CreateObject("MSUtil.LogQuery.CSVOutputFormat")

' Set output format parameters
oCSVOutputFormat.tabs = True
oCSVOutputFormat.oDQuotes = "OFF"
oCSVOutputFormat.oTsFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
oCSVOutputFormat.oCodepage = -1

' Create query text
strQuery = "SELECT TimeGenerated, Message INTO Output.csv FROM System"

' Execute query
oLogQuery.ExecuteBatch strQuery, oEVTInputFormat, oCSVOutputFormat