I am in the process of writing an enterprise-level application utilizing WCF and NetTCP services. I chose NetTCP initially out of curiosity, but later determined it to be the best option for me since I can have services that are called that take 5+ hours to return results due to the amount of data crunching involved. The way I currently...
I've build a vb.net windows service which does nothing but ping a wcf webservice and handles sending a maintenance request to this same webservice at night time. It does both tasks using a timer event. If the service does nothing but these two things it says at startup that it's shutting down cause of being idle. The windows service thre...
Is there a way to print to a RemotePrintServer in .NET Windows Service? I'm reviewing a piece of code where a LocalPrintServer is used, but I need to be able to send the print jobs to a remote print server. Any ideas? ...
I have a windows service running as part of my application. If I wish to communicate with it via the service handle I can issue custom commands (eg, 'start worker'). Ultimately, this will be a call to the Win32 ControlService() function. What is the best way to return a block of data from such a command? Specifically, I want to return ...
I have a service, as follows: """ The most basic (working) CherryPy 3.1 Windows service possible. Requires Mark Hammond's pywin32 package. """ import cherrypy import win32serviceutil import win32service import sys import __builtin__ __builtin__.theService = None class HelloWorld: """ Sample request handler class. """ def __i...
I am building an ASP.NET website which will collect data from a user and submit it to a 3rd party webservice. The webservice is somewhat unreliable and for this reason there is a backup service. If a call to the primary service fails (timeout or some other error) then I need to flip a bit in a static class which will trip the system to ...
I developed a Windows service which is running without any problem in Windows XP service pack 3. When I deployed this service in Windows Server 2008 it is not working. The service started without any problem. I enabled the option Windows XP service pack 2 from the compatibility property of the .exe which deployed there. But no more act...
What are the differences between a web service and a Windows service? My experience has mostly been with Windows services, and I have never created a web service. Do web services behave similarly to Windows services? Can they have scheduling, run at certain times, etc.? When you would use a web service in place of a Windows service, a...
I have a Windows Service which I install using the InstallUtil.exe. Even though I have set the Startup Method to Automatic, the service does not start when installed, I have to manually open the services and click start. Is there a way to start it either via the command line, or through the code of the Service? ...
I developed a Windows service using C#.NET to generate PDF report. To generate PDF file I am using a third party dll. The application is running in my Windows XP platform. When I deployed the service in Windows Server 2008 64 bit version, I got this error: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {46521B1F-0A5B-...
I wrote a windows service in C# that does some functionality (a public method) after reading a file at regular intervals. Is it possible for me to use this functionality from another C# application ? If possible, please give a solution based on .net 2.0 as well as .net 3.0 Thanks ...
I have a project that is deployed to production as a windows service. However for local development purposes it would be useful to run it as a console application. At the moment I have a class Called ReportingHost that provides my core functionality, And a class called ReportingServiceHost that inherits from ServiceBase and allows me to ...
Hi, Is there anyways to get the executable file path of a running Windows service without requiring administrator execution level privilege in .Net? (Without causing the UAC to get the user's confirmation) ...
I am trying to connect SQL Server from a Windows service. Now my Windows service is installed in different system. Now if I want to connect to my SQL Server, how can I connect? I am able to connect if I add the respective system userid in the SQL Server login users. I don't think that is the right way..because if i required to install th...
I can start the service correctly if the service's "Log on" account has a password. But when I remove the user password and try again, I got the error: "Error 1069: The service did not start due to a logon failure" Can't a service runs under an account with empty password? ...
Hi all, My installer program doesn't suppport installing services but I can run a program/command line etc so my question is how can I install a Windows Service and add 2 dependencies using the command line? The program is a .Net 2.0 app. Thanks ...
I want to figure out when the services was start up and terminated. Are there any kind log file about it? ...
Objective: In support of a Windows Service that may have multiple instances on a single machine, use a Setup Project to create an MSI capable of: Receiving user input for Service Name Installing service Serializing Service Name from 1 (so that the proper name can be used in logging and uninstall) My initial hope was to set Service Na...
I have a Windows Service running on a .Net 2.0 environment (NOT UPGRADABLE TO 3/3.5). The service uses a System.Timers.Timer on a X second Interval to poll for items on a database table. The Timer.Elapsed event handling code is wrapped around a lock statement to prevent the next Elapsed event of running if the previous processing has no...
I am going to be coding up a windows service to add users to a computer (users with no rights, ie just for authentication). (As a side note, I plan to use this method.) I want to be able to call this windows service from another computer. How is this done? Is this a tall order? Would I be better off just creating a Web Service and h...