I've created a windows service in c# and I'm trying to install it for debug using the installutil as recommended here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sd8zc8ha.aspx The installutil says Install completed. However, nothing appears in the service control manager. I've tried this on Server 2008 and XP with the same result. Any id...
Hi, I have a windows service that has a timer that fires a method every 30 seconds. The method then calls thread.sleep() and when it finishes it calls thread.start(); All code in the method is wrapped in a try/catch except for the calls to the tread sleep/start. For some reason the service stops working, but if I recycle it or set it...
A consultant setup a windows service to run a application. The application is supposed to run every 15 mins. The application is not running at all an the service appears to be running fine. I am not familiar with the how a application will run a a stanard interval when running as a service. The service uses SRVANY.EXE tool. ...
Hi All, How do i programatically pass in arguments to OnStart method of a Service, which I further need to propagate to the Elapsed event of the Timer inside the service. Amit ...
I have a windows service that calls a page after a certain interval of time. The page in turn creates some reports. The problem is that the service stops doing anything after 2-3 calls. as in it calls the page for 2-3 times and then does not do any work though it shows that the service is running...i am using timers in my service.. plea...
I have a C# Windows Service running on the .NET Framework 3.5 that is exhibiting a constantly growing number of GC Handles (seen using System Monitor on Windows Server 2003). I have ensured that all resources are disposed of correctly, and have no Finalisers in my code. The 'Large Object Heap size', and '# Bytes in all Heaps' are compa...
I have a windows service that starts a thread in the OnStart method. Basically I want to be able to stop the service if something goes really wrong (like an unhandled exception). Currently I'm using ServiceBase.Stop() but that involves having a ServiceBase instance somewhere visible to the thread, which in turn involves having my insta...
Do you have to restart a windows service if you change the app.config? ...
I have an application that is built as a Windows Service and a c# library assembly (.dll.) In order to manage and maintain this service, I'd like to add the ability to run a command-line application that tells the last time the service archived files, the next time it's scheduled to do so, the status of the last run, and the location of ...
I need something that runs in the background and go into my database and scan and update certain rows based on certain logic. I need this to run like every hour and my environment is Windows Server 2003, SqlServer 2005. Is WWF good for this purpose? Or should I create a Windows Service? And, what's difference between WWF and Windows Se...
What is the easiest language to build Windows services in? Easiest in this case would be defined as least amount of code, and lowest point of entry into the language. ...
I have a Windows executable that is launched from within a service by calling CreateProcessWithLogonW() with a set of specfied user details. This works fine and the process starts as expected. However, when this process tries to launch other processes itself, currently just using CreateProcess() these start then die straight away - they...
Having read Setting up Subversion on Windows I am trying to figure out how to run multiple SVN services on one machine. When I create more then one service using sc create svnP1 ... binpath= "svnserve.exe --service -r c:\svn\repositories\project1" sc create svnP2 ... binpath= "svnserve.exe --service -r c:\svn\repositories\project2" ...
Two weeks ago I needed a way to communicate a wcf service with a windows service running on the same computer. The windows service had to get data from a external source and share it with the wcf service (hosted in IIS) who had to give it when a client made a request. I chose to do that with ipc. I done it and now the windows service i...
I have a service application built in Delphi that works great. It does exactly what I want it to do and all is happy. All is fine until I want to run two (or more) instances of that service on a single machine. Since the service name is hard coded into the program (via the Name property of the service), I can only install the service ...
I wanted to set up remote debugging from Eclipse. Tomcat is running as a service on windows. That bit is fine, a quick google pointed me towards the correct settings to add to wrapper.conf to enable this. There were entries already in wrapper.conf, so I copy/pasted the last entry and modified it: wrapper.java.additional.8="-Djava.end...
I have to write a Windows Service application (no GUI) that will monitor an event, and if it occurs will send a standard windows message to an application. The handle of the application will be given to the service by a DLL which is then unloaded, so a windows message is the way we wish to use. The question though is whether the service...
How can I check if a windows service is installed using just the executable path? I checked the ServiceController class - it lets you use service name and display name but not the executable name to verify. I only have the executable's FullName available for use in my code. Any ideas? ...
Looking into possibility of making an USB distributed application that will autostart on insertion of an USB stick and shutdown when removing the stick Will use .Net and C#. Looking for suggestion how to approach this using C#? Update: Two possible solutions implementing this as a service. - override WndProc or - using WMI query with ...
How do I pass a property to a Java process, started as a Windows service using Wrapper.exe? The target code calls: System.getProperty("ADMIN_USERNAME"); ...