Reading event logs saved on disk

I want to read event log entries from saved event logs. For doing the same i used EventLogReader class,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.eventing.reader.eventlogreader(v=vs.110).aspx

but it is failing on Windows server 2003 as it is not supported. Is there any alternative way to read saved event logs on windows server 2003