I need to create a service. I know that you can do it with just a console application but it can also be done with ATL.. What are the benefits of the ATL Service vs a simple console application service? I understand that ATL is COM.. but what are the benefits of COM with the service.. thanks! ...
I am new to domain driven development & have a simple question. If a service needs to generate some entity as a response to an operation then how should it be done? One of the ways is to inject entity factory in the service instance. Is there any other better solution for the same ? Thanks & regards ...
Short: I am looking for a very simple (configuration/maintenance wise) solution, that would allow to collect user-feedback/bug-reports from my apps/web-sites over the internet. Long: Right now I have very simple web-app written using ASP.NET MVC that receives http-post requests at http://localhost/feedback and saves them as c:\temp\{gui...
Hello Experts, I have a windows service that runs at 5 PM everyday. Once it starts it will use a method to watcher that monitors a folder and if any new file is created it will upload it to Mainframes. My questions is once the service is started for how long will the filewatcher be effective?? When will the service stop watching the fo...
When I want to find a "Big" Web service (WS-*/WSDL based) of required functionality I can simply google for ".... filetype:wsdl" because Google indexes also WSDL definitions. Or I can simply use some registries that already crawled the Web for WSDL definitions for me, e.g. SeekDa.com or ServiceFinder. When I want to find RESTful Web ser...
Is it possible to identify whether the user is on a phone call while using an app. Here is the scenario: I get a call I accept the call Tap the home button Launch an app At this point can I tell this app that a call is going on in background? Getting to know the screen is not a full blown option. Because it makes life difficult whe...
Hi, I'm currently working on an XMPP app' on Android and I'm pondering about the best way to throw a different type of Exception than a RemoteException to my activity from my service. As it seems impossible to throw another thing than a RemoteException using IPC (you can't declare to throw anything in your .aidl), I just see two soluti...
I have a process that is running as a java daemon on Ubuntu Linux. I cannot stop it using start-stop-daemon command in d_stop() below. The process id should be written to file $PIDFILE during the start process, but that is not working. Here is my script: #! /bin/sh # # # # Version: @(#)daemon 1.0 # set -e PATH=/usr/local/sbin...
I've got a WCF service that will need to receive client credentials, and maintain some kind of role-based data, based on my auth method. The clients will reside on many different systems, and as such, each client will have a unique userID and pw. I'm using basicHttpBinding and have read a few articles, such as this one, http://nirajru...
Hi I was asked this question - How do you start consuming a WCF service in advance (read before being implemented/deployed)? I couldn't think of a very convincing answer and said probably we can generate a proxy and provide some stubs ..etc... you got the idea. Even I was not convinced with myself. The question do make sense as present...
Hi, I am new to WCF and I want to know if it is possible to create a WCF service on it's own application and host it on IIS. Then another ASP.NET application will consume it. So far all the examples i have seen have the WCF service inside the same ASP.NET solution. If so, can you please provide some hints about how to do it? I want to c...
I have a WCF service with operations that all require MyServiceRequest parameter (or derived type) and returns MyServiceResponse (or dervived type), i.e.: [OperationContract] MySeviceResponse FindAppointments(FindAppointmentRequest request); [OperationContract] MyServiceResponse MakeAnAppointment(MakeAnAppointmentReques...
Greetings All! I am having some troubles on how to execute thousands upon thousands of requests to a web service (eBay), I have a limit of 5 million calls per day, so there are no problems on that end. However, I'm trying to figure out how to process 1,000 - 10,000 requests every minute to every 5 minutes. Basically the flow is: 1) Ge...
I am extending the IntentService class to run a background service on Android. The service starts after bootup immediately. I want to pop-up a user input box from this service periodically. So, I tried calling an Activity from the service, but it doesn't help. The dreaded box of Force Close appears and the service dies. Can anybody sugg...
Hi, I have developed a WCF Service library and I am hosting it in IIS 7.5 I am able to test it using the VS test client but whenever i attempt to invoke it using a client in another solution i get this error: System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException Could not connect to http://localhost/EvalServiceSite2/Eval.svc/ws. TCP error code 1...
Hey, I am trying to get a WCF service to return a List that contains instances of classes that inherit from A but am getting "The underlying connection unexpectedly closed" when the service returns the list. I have the following [DataContract] [Serializable] public class A { ... } [DataContract] [Serializable] public clas...
Hello everyone: Does image data type be converted to byte array in sybase? I apply web service to get data set in sybase( image data type). I use byte[] to get returning of web service. Then i use the "response.binarywrite(byte[])" to show the image.(ASP.NET C#) But there' s a image distortion problem (When i zoon in the image, some poi...
Hello guys! I have a url which normally points to a postcode lookup webservice: "http://pce.afd.co.uk/afddata.pce?Serial=822590&Password=<PASSWORD>&UserID=<UNAME>&Data=Address&Task=PropertyLookup&Fields=List&MaxQuantity=200&Lookup=BD1+3RA" I need to make a call to this url, probably by using Htt...
Hey guys, We are thinking about the deployment and update strategy for a fairly large framework throughout our organization. The application will be in .NET 3.5 and will run on Windows XP, Vista and Win 7 machines. I have used Clickonce few times and it works well for sure. Has anyone thought of, or have implemented the BITS feature of...
Hi, I have written a Windows service to send mails to users in a Sharepoint list based on some condition. The development server is a stand-alone Sharepoint installation and the Windows service works fine. But,the Production environment has the application(Sharepoint) and Database(SQL) residing on different servers. So when the Windo...