services

first android service

Hi, I creating a small application that will basically use a background server to send data over HTTP. I dont know how to create services. Secondly there will be a couple of activities in my application. I want the activities to display a Context Menu when data becomes available. How can i do both. I have search for a while but the cod...

Android Download Service

Does anyone have a good example of using a service to download a file? I am not sure whether to use remote or local and even if I was sure, I need a basic example to start with. Basically, I want to start the service with the url of the file to downland and when the download is done end the service. Google's example of services is fil...

How many service accounts do you use for SharePoint 2010?

Hi there, we're deploying SharePoint 2010 the first time for production and are not sure how many accounts we need. Currently we plan to use the following accounts: Admin-Account - For use of administration tasks and installation WebApplication-Account - Will be used by web applications ServiceApplication-Account - Will be used by ser...

best practice for return value in WCF services.

I have a WCF service sitting in the cloud. And my application makes several calls to this WCF service. Is it a best practise: 1] to always use return value as bool which indicates if the operation was sucessful or not. 2] returning the values you meant to return as the OUT parameters ...

Creating a service for monitoring

As an exercise in both writing Windows Services and communicating with them, I've decided I want to try and write a service to monitor hardware performance on my machine, record it and report on it daily. I want to be able to query the service remotely and from researching this a little, I think I could embed a ServiceHost in there. Ho...

Windows 7 Service differences between local system and local service

Hi, I have a rather complicated toolchain so prepare for a lengthy post until getting to the problem: I managed to get PDFCreator and a virtual PDF creating printer under Windows 7 running in server mode as a service. Next step in the process is PDFCreator calling a VBScript after the PDF is created. The script uploads the PDF to our s...

What does "semi-public service" mean in Android?

I searching a way how to disable the opening and closing animation of notification bar (status bar). The behavior and animation is hardcoded in StatusBarService. The documentation says that the StatusBarService is "semi-public". What does "semi-public service" mean? ...

IntelliJ OS X Services

I am using IntellJ IDEA 9.0.2 CE on OS X Snow Leopard. The Services menu never seems to contain any entries, even though I have installed several text services (which do show up in other applications). Is there a way to use these? I am relatively new to the Mac. Thanks. ...

Add New Row to a DataGrid in Silverlight WCF RIA Services...

Some guidance with Silverlight WCF RIA Services... DataGrid and detail view on the same page Control layout DataGrid Detail View [Add New Row (button)] If I wanted to add a new row from a button then pick that new row in the datagrid how would I do that? I have tried: DetailViewTest.Web.Services.Mode1DomainContext ctx = (Mode1DomainCon...

Team Foundation server (TFS) restore, Missing services?

Hi, I'm testing out the backup and restore of TFS, before migrating to it for our source control. Problem is, I'm getting confused with restore part of the msdn documentation. In particular, the part where we are required to update the service accounts (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252458.aspx#UpdateAccounts). You mus...

When to use a webservice over a windows service?

I have a data loading application that has to be executed multiple times per day at irregular intervals. I am planning to write a service to kick off the downloads and import the data to a database server. Are there advantages to using a standard service over a webservice or vice versa? ...

Threading as a WCF Service

I have a Windows Service which I need to have installed on a machine and run just long enough to send out an email of logs and then sleep for 24 hours. If I call the service method from a web client, it works fine, but when I call it from the windows service, it fails every time and the error information doesn't give me anything specifi...

How to interact with the Panoramio API using services?

Hi guys, I'm writing a location base client and would love to integrate Panoramio with my client, now the problem is that I can't find a way to interact with the Panoramio using a ~REST-like service. I know they do have an API but it's mostly for embedding the content into a website and not as to interact thru me code (at least from doc...

Is there a way to sleep unless a message is received?

I'm working in a service whose main loop looks like this: while (fServer.ServerState = ssStarted) and (Self.Terminated = false) do begin Self.ServiceThread.ProcessRequests(false); ProcessFiles; Sleep(3000); end; ProcessRequests is a lot like Application.ProcessMessages. I can't pass true to it because if I do then it bloc...

" Not able to open my report on report manager"

I have built a report on SQL server business intelligence development studio ( microsoft SQL server 2005). After that when I try to deploy a solution in SSRS 2005, I get a dialog box with title: "Reporting Services Login". It has my server listed as the first row: "http://localhost/reportserver" and then it has two text boxes asking for ...

OS X: how to define the order of the NSServices provided by an application

We have defined a couple of NSServices for the same NSSendFileTypes in our application's Info.plist. Unfortunately, they occur in a different order than defined when they show up in the context menu. Is it possible to tell OS X to keep the order as defined? ...

microsoft dynamics crm WS -- what can he do?

hi, can the webservices for micorsoft dynamics crm give me all informations that the system helds? that is : is all data held in these "entities" ``? Do you know a good tutorial or architectural overview of Microsofts Dynamics CRM ? yours Andy ...

Port to Service Name in Java?

My services file (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\services) has a bunch of Port to Service mappings: echo 7/tcp echo 7/udp discard 9/tcp sink null discard 9/udp sink null systat 11/tcp users #Active users systat 11/udp users ...

Exposing DAO as web service

Hello, Can anyone point me in the direction of documentation for exposing a DAO as an external web service? Currently, in my application we follow a DAO -> Service -> UI layered architecture. Everything is internal to the app, our DAOs access the DB through Spring JDBC and the services are visible only to the web application. We now ...

service installation on server 2003

I'm trying to install service which I created in visual studio 2008 on windows server 2003 the problem is that I'm keep getting the following error: Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion all the documentation I read about the issue suggested to install .NET Framework 1.1 Servic...