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Windows Service setup project - run service as administrator

Hi, I've got a setup project for a Windows Service (.net 3.5, visual studio 2008). The Windows Service needs to be run under the Administrator account, does anyone know how I can get the Setup Project to set the "user to log on as" setting for the windows service as part of the setup process? At the moment I have to manually right cli...

where to put the validate logic? In Service or Repository?

I have some logic like this, before save the stock into the db, i will check whether there is stock has the same stock code in the database. My question is where should I put the logic, in the service layer or repository layer. here is the sample code: option 1: put in the service layer, i put the IsAccountAlreadyExists Method in the ser...

Entity Framework and Object Context lifetime in ASP.NET MVC

Hi there I'm using Entity Framework in my project, and I have the problem that, once I pass my entities to a View (keep in mind that these entities have lazy-initialized objects along the lines of: Products.Owner, where owner is an object that is lazily initialized) I get a run-time exception telling me that the ObjectContext is out of ...

.net windows service as a state server

Hi there, i'd like to create a windows service that would be accessible via WCF from a web application. The workflow would be: Windows Service starts and would hold a default value in memory. A web app would connect the windows service via wcf and take the value and after some processing set the value back in the memory. In a while wo...

SQL Server login problem for a windows service on reboot

Hi, I have a service that has a dependency on SQL server express (2005). Every morning when I reboot my machine, I see that the service has not started. In the event viewer, I see the following error: Service cannot be started. System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot open database "MyDatabase" requested by the login. The login faile...

When is a started service not a started service? (SQL Express)

We require programmatic access to a SQL Server Express service as part of our application. Depending on what the user is trying to do, we may have to attach a database, detach a database, back one up, etc. Sometimes the service might not be started before we attempt these operations. So we need to ensure the service is started. Here is w...

Feedback service for Push notification

Hi, I wrote the below script to read the feedback data. But, for some reasons, I am not receiving any data from the server. Can you kindly let me know whats wrong with the script. Also, if you have any working php script for feedback service, can you kindly share it... regards, DD. $ctx = stream_context_create(); stream_context_set...

new ServiceHost for every WCF service ?

First,Im running a windows service that should contain a lot of funcionality.There will be a business layer and the results comming from this business layer will be sent over WCF to the presentation layer. I dont know how to structe all this functionality. So my questions are : 1. Should I create somekind of a Facade pattern class tha...

What is the best way to write a JUnit test against a method signature that calls a Web service?

The method I want to test has a local variable that references an object returned from a Web service call. This Web service returns information specific to a particular user based upon input from that user on a Web page. It is like a question/answer, where the answer given in a form text field must match the answer provided by the user a...

Android: Can I take a screen capture from an app?

I was wondering if there is a way to take a screenshot of the current screen inside the mobile phone using a service (I know how to do it through DDMS though) ...

Can only connect to SQL Sever 2008 Express remotely afer server restart

I am running SQL Server 2008 Express and can connect to it fine using port forwarding through my router, AND when I am on the same subnet. However when I am on a different subnet, I can only connect to it right after I restart the SQL Server Agent. After the restart, I can connect to it, however if I close the connection, I have to res...

Building an installer that can install the same package multiple times (to different folders) with multiple configurations

Hi, We have a bit of an odd setup, which comes from the fact we provide hosted installations of our software to our clients, and each client may be on a different version of our software and be running with a seperate database. We also allow clients (under a different licensing scheme) to install our software locally at their premises...

SOAP complex type in header

I am learning how to consume .net web services. I am using 4.7 JDE in Eclipse, testing in the Curve (8520) simulator 4.6.1.272. I generated the stubs using Sun Java Wireless Toolkit 2.5. One of the services requires a complex type in the SOAP header (not in the SOAP body). Is it possible to do that using the stubs created by the toolk...

WCF Service Library - make calls from Console App

Hello there, I have a WCF Service Library with netTcpBinding. Its app.config as follows: <configuration> <system.serviceModel> <bindings> <netTcpBinding> <binding name="netTcp" maxBufferPoolSize="50000000" maxReceivedMessageSize="50000000"> <readerQuotas maxDepth="500" maxStringContentLength="50000000" maxArrayLength="500...

Installing a Windows Service as a user

Hello, I'm currently in the process of creating a Windows service application which will monitor changes to certain keys made in the HKEY_USERS registry. The way I do this is by collecting the SID of the current user. The issue I'm having is that its returning the administrators SID due to the service currently running as local system. ...

Get listing of web services referenced in WCF application?

Hi, Could anyone out there give some pointers on how to go about getting a listing of all the web service references used by a WCF application - the pseudo code I'm envisioning might look something like: For each ws in MyWebServices Console.WriteLine("Service Name: " & ws.Name) Next How to build the MyWebServices object is what I ...

What is Distributed Lock Server

What is Distributed Lock Service (or Server)? When it needs to be used? ...

Problem in Debugging and installing Window NT Service created in VC++

Hi, I have a legacy service which was developed in VC++ 6.0 and right now maintained using Visual Studio 2008. It handles database operations and provides records to its JAVA client in a predefined (XML) format. When we install JAVA application the service automatically gets installed (through JAVA application's installer). To debug t...

Start a program in an active user session from a service?

How can I start a program in an active user session from a running .NET background process. Basically I have a .NET application running as a service and I want that application to launch a specific windowed application on the users desktop when certain events happen. How can I do this? This question is related to this one: http://stac...

Turning display off from Windows Service

I have written a Windows service which should turn the display OFF when certain conditions occur. The code I am using is : private const int MONITOR_OFF = 2; SendMessage(GetDesktopWindow().ToInt32(), WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_MONITORPOWER, MONITOR_OFF); This same code works from a Windows application but when executed from Windows service...