ActiveState Perl 5.8 (latest)
Windows 2000

I'm trying to get event source information. Specifically, I want to get a list of available event categories. Here's a sample of what I've got so far and it's output: 

use strict;
use Win32::TieRegistry;

my $key = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services";
$key .= "\\EventLog\\Application\\MSDTC";

my $vals = $Registry->{$key} or  die "Can't find the Windows tips: $^E
+\n";

foreach my $k (keys %$vals){
   if($k =~ /CategoryCount/){
      print "$k => ", hex($vals->{$k}), "\n";
   }
   else{
      print "$k => $vals->{$k}\n";
   }
}

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And it's output: 

EventMessageFile => C:\WINNT\System32\MSDTCPRX.DLL
TypesSupported => 0x00000007
CategoryMessageFile => C:\WINNT\System32\MSDTCPRX.DLL
CategoryCount => 18

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This is all well and good. I can see that there are 18 categories for the MSDTC app, and I can see the corresponding DLL file.

Now, my question is - how do I get the actual category names out of 'C:\WINNT\System32\MSDTCPRX.DLL'? Is this possible with Win32::TieRegistry (or another Win32 module)? Any and all help much appreciated. Regards, Dan

In reply to Win32::TieRegistry and DLL information by djberg96

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