Event Tracing for Windows

1 create and write the manifest.xml

<instrumentationManifest xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events">
 <instrumentation xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns:win="http://manifests.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/windows/events">

  <events xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events">
   <!--Publisher Info -->
   <provider name="DotNetPerformance-TechalWriting-EventLogSample" 
                guid="{9CDE86C9-DFB9-463f-B2C5-71EEC232A69C}" 
                symbol="DOTNETPERFORMANCE_TECHNICALWRITING_PUBLISHER" 
                resourceFileName="C:\adams\etw\Debug\EventLogging.exe" 
                messageFileName="C:\adams\etw\Debug\EventLogging.exe">

    <!--Channel to which this Publisher can publish -->
    <channels>
     <channel chid="MyOpChannel" 
                        name="DotNetPerformance-TechalWriting-EventLogSample/Operational" 
                        type="Operational" 
                        symbol="DOTNETPERFORMANCEOP" 
                        isolation="Application" enabled="true"/>
     <channel chid="MyDebugChannel" 
                        name="DotNetPerformance-TechalWriting-EventLogSample/Debug" 
                        type="Debug" 
                        symbol="DOTNETPERFORMANCEDEBUG" 
                        isolation="Application" enabled="true"/>
    </channels>

    <!--Event Templates -->
    <templates>
     <template tid="SimpleEvent" message="$(string.SimpleMessage)">>
      <data name="Message" inType="win:UnicodeString"/>
      <UserData>
       <SimpleEvent xmlns="http://manifests.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/windows/simpleevent">
        <ExceptionMessage>%1</ExceptionMessage>
       </SimpleEvent>
      </UserData>
     </template>
    </templates>

    <events>
     <event value="1" 
                        level="win:Informational" 
                        template="SimpleEvent" 
                        opcode="win:Info" 
                        channel="MyOpChannel" 
                        symbol="DNP_OP_EVENT"
                        message="$(string.SimpleMessage)"/>
     <event value="2" 
                   level="win:Informational" 
                   template="SimpleEvent" 
                   opcode="win:Info" 
                   channel="MyDebugChannel" 
                   symbol="DNP_DEBUG_EVENT"
                   message="$(string.SimpleMessage)"/>
    </events>

   </provider>

  </events>

 </instrumentation>

 <localization>
  <resources culture="en-US">
   <stringTable>
    <string id="SimpleMessage" value="%1" stringType="string"/>
   </stringTable>
  </resources>
 </localization>
</instrumentationManifest>