windows-services

exe to service

I have exe file. i want run it as windows service. I am new to windows services.can anybody help me? Thanks Suneetha. ...

Schedule machine to wake up

What's the best way to programmatically cause a Windows XP (or above) machine to wake up at a specific time. (Ideally a lot like how Media Center can start up automatically to record a particular TV program) I've got a Windows service (written in C#) and I'd like this service to be able to cause the machine it is hosted on to start up a...

How can I create a windows service that is a standalone exe application?

I would like to create an console exe application, that may be run as a standalone application as well as a windows service. Is it possible to do? What are actually the benefits of using svchost? ...

WiX installer and custom actions

Hi, I have an application that is a not so simple Windows service (C#). I created an installer using Visual Studio 2008, which did the job of installing the service on the clients machine, but using the Visual Studio deployment project has 2 drawbacks: I can't seem to get the installer to build using MSBuild (i've tried the DevEnv.exe...

Is it a good idea to cache DataContractSerializer instances?

I'm writing a windows service application that needs to serialize and deserialize XML documents repeatedly during its execution. As I need to serialize and deserialize generic types that are not known during compilation time (I don't know a priori how many types I need to serialize/deserialize) I'd like to know if it is a good idea do ke...

How to Read Custom XML from the app.config ?

I want to read the custom XML section from the app.config of a C# windows service. How do I go about it? The XML is below: <Books> <Book name="name1" title="title1"/> <Book name="name2" title="title2"/> </Books> ...

Windows Service Setup & Deployment Issues

Hi all, I'm having a problem installing a windows service using the Setup & Deployment Method listed on the msdn website. Here's what i did. I created a dummy windows service. I then created an projectInstaller for that service by right clicking on my service in design mode and choosing add an installer. After that i created a separa...

How to deploy a C# service(.exe) from Install Shield 2009 Premier

I have a service [C# exe] and I can deploy it using Visual Studio Command Prompt window typing "InstallUtil MyService.exe". Now how to do the same thing from Install Shield 2009 Premier(and also start the service as we do manually)? ...

Async call for WCF service hosted in windows service

I have hosted a WCF service in windows service. I have console app for which I added a WCF service reference and generated Client for it. I can make Sync call to the service,but Async call doesn't seem to work. If i attach server process it doesn't hit the service at all. client= new ServiceClient(); client.DoSomething();//Works fine ...

Installing a windows service on remote machine using given username

What is the best way to install a windows service written in C# (in the standard way) on a remote machine, where I need to provide the username and password it should run as? I am going to run it from MSBuild as part of integration tests. EDIT: I don't have an msi and I don't want to create one. ...

What is the timeout for starting a windows service?

I have deployed my windows service (using independently installer class and SC.EXE), but I get an error when I try to start it: --------------------------- Services --------------------------- Could not start the MyName service on Local Computer. Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fash...

Monitor the performance of individual window service

I have 7 windows services. i want to monitor the performance of the individual services like the processor usage, memory usage etc. If i use perfmon, it gives for the entire system but not the individual services. Can anyone please suggest how do i monitor the performance of individual services? ...

How can I monitor status changes of windows services under windows xp?

I'm trying to write a program in C, that can detect when some Windows services (aka. NT services) are started or stopped. There seems to be a function NotifyServiceStatusChange, but that's only available on Vista and Windows 7. I'm trying to do this on Win XP, so what's the best way? Is there any other than continuous polling? edit: I...

win service or scheduled task to Periodically Call a Web Service?

I have a web service which I would like to call on a scheduled basis. Currently, I have a scheduled task setup to execute the call. Here's a link Jon Galloway's post on the topic. I'm planning to switch this out with a Win Service, simply to appease my boss, but I'm wondering what the advantages are (aside from keeping my job ;). I pe...

C# - windows service installer not registering service

Hi, I'm trying to use an installer for a Windows service, and would like to avoid using InstallUtil.exe. The installer appears to work correctly (the executable and dlls are in the correct directory), but the service doesn't appear under Computer Management. Here's what I've done so far: The service class name is the default - Servic...

How do I install a C# Windows service without creating an installer?

Does anyone know if there is a way to install a Windows service created in C# without making an installer? ...

Implementing a thread-safe FTP file fetching daemon on Windows

Hello everyone, I'm starting to implement a simple daemon that basically fetches a file from an FTP location with the help of a BackgroundWorker component to kind of guarantee sort of thread safety there. Although I sort of feel I'm heading towards the right direction, I'm not completely familiar with the technologies involved, therefore...

How to make a .NET Windows Service start right after the installation?

Besides the service.StartType = ServiceStartMode.Automatic my service does not start after installation Solution Inserted this code on my ProjectInstaller protected override void OnAfterInstall(System.Collections.IDictionary savedState) { base.OnAfterInstall(savedState); using (var serviceController = new ServiceController(thi...

Restarting a Windows service from a Linux box

We have a crummy legacy Windows application (already discussed here) which replicates content to from a Windows host to many Linux hosts. We several instances of it running on several boxes. Each instance has its own .ini file containing a list destination servers. Fairly often we need to change the content of these files and restart the...

Best way to throttle email on Windows Server 2008

I have a server with SMTP set up for my site's outbound email. In order to not get blacklisted I'd like to limit outbound emails to under an arbitrary threshold (let's say 500 per hour). What's the best way to implement this? The two possibilities I see would be: 1) Some sort of outbound throttling within the SMTP Virtual Server (Not...