Possible Duplicate: How might I schedule a C# Windows Service to perform a task daily? I am creating a C# Windows Service, but I didn't figure out the best way to make timer fire a method daily at a specific time specified in App.Config file (e.g. daily at 6:00AM, my method is executed). How do you do it? Thanks ...
Say I need to design an in-memory service because of a very high load read/write system. I want to dump the results of the objects every 2 minutes. How would I access the in-memory objects/data from within a web application? (I was thinking a Windows service would be running in the background handling the in-memory service etc.) I want...
I'm looking for different ways with strengths/weaknesses for converting a console application we are using long term in to a windows service. We use something called java service wrapper for ActiveMQ, and I believe people have told me you can wrap anything with it. That's not saying that you should wrap anything with it though; we've h...
Hey guys, I'm making my first windows service in C#, at the moment a pretty innocent looking thing that doesn't do anything yet. However I find when I try to install it, either using a standard Setup project in Visual Studio, or using the simple "self-installer" outlined here, our company's antivirus won't allow installation because it...
When I run a service as LocalSystem account, I can use following codes to launch a GUI program under current login account: WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId->WTSQueryUserToken->CreateProcessAsUser However, when I run the service as my personal account, the GUI program will NOT show up. I can see it in task manager though. What should I do...
Hello and good morning! I have following scenario: We have a WebService which poses as a search-engine, used by WebApps But as we all know on 32bit systems and IIS6: 800Mb is the max. alloc-mem for a webapp... Now I had the following idea, as we are exceeding this limitation: Let the WCF communicate with a Windows Service, which isn'...
I've been following a tutorial on http://michaelellerbeck.com/2009/01/12/creating-a-service-for-visual-basic-2008-express/ for creating a service using VB Express 2008. I got the first part working and managed to get the sample to install using InstallUtil, but the second part has you use a form with buttons to install and uninstall the ...
I have an IPC problem. I have created into a windows service a NamedPipeServer: serverPipe = new NamedPipeServerStream(Constants.PIPE_NAME, PipeDirection.InOut, 1, PipeTransmissionMode.Message, PipeOptions.Asynchronous); Thread thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(pipeWork)); thread.Start(); where pipeWork is private static void pipeW...
I am trying to run a file watcher over some server path using windows service. I am using my windows login credential to run the service, and am able to access this "someServerPath" from my login. But when I do that from the FileSystemWatcher it throws: The directory name \someServerPath is invalid" exception. var fileWatcher = ne...
Hi, I need to change Logon user for a Windows service programmatically. And I am using the following code to do that: string objPath = string.Format("Win32_Service.Name='{0}'", ServiceName); using (ManagementObject service = new ManagementObject(new ManagementPath(objPath))) { object[] wmiParams = new object[11]; if (PredefinedAccount...
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I have some services that an application needs running in order for some of the app's features to work. I would like to enable the option to only start the external Windows services to initialize after the application is launched. (as opposed to having them start automatically with the machine and take up memory when the application is ...
Using the code from the following article, I implemented an own ThreadPool: http://www.developer.com/net/article.php/3783756 This is what I want to achieve: Triggered through a Timer, a service should query a database every 5 seconds for new jobs to execute. A Job is basically only the information about a commandline program that needs ...
I have a project with several separate components that all need to talk to each other. I am now trying to find a good way to share a permission system between each component. The 3 major components are: An ASP.Net Web Application A Silverlight application (served by the web application) A Windows Service, which provides some WCF web ...
Hi We have an windows service written in .net, that is hosting WCF service. My question is, Is it possible to monitor and restart service on any fault, in other world I want my service to be restarted automaticaly on any fault.Thanks a lot ...
I'm working on an asp.net website that uses FusionCharts v3.1 code to render graphs as swf files. I need to write code to allow users to re-create and email these graphs on a scheduled basis. Our product uses a service to take care of scheduling and email events so I need to modify the code to first render the data as a graph, save it ...
I have this code for a Windows service I am writing in .NET....However the TICK function never gets executed regardless of what interval I put in the tmrRun properties. What am I missing? I am sure its something stupid I am not seeing. Thank You Imports System.IO Public Class HealthMonitor Protected Overrides Sub OnStart(B...
I have five Windows services that all exist in the same exe. Is there a way to tell Windows to run each service as it's own process? ...
I've two separated projects being one of them a Windows Service having another one has a reference. I want my Service to call a method from the referenced project, something like this: protected override void OnStart(string[] args) { MessageSystem msg_system = new MessageSystem(); IQueryable<MensagemGrupo> mensagens = ...
I am writing a web application in ASP.NET 3.5 that takes care of some basic data entry scenarios. There is also a component to the application that needs to continuously poll some data and perform actions based on business logic. What is the best way to implement the "polling" component? It needs to run and check the data every coup...