The service was compile with no trace/debug constant and no debug info. How would you inspect the memory usage of that windows services? ...
I think the question is clear. ...
Hi all, I wrote a windows service and a gui for it. Of course gui mainly depends on the service. Is there a way for gui to wait for the service? Sometimes I need to reload service config from the gui and restart the service. I was thinking about 2 solutions: 1. using while and sleep to wait for service controller status to change (of c...
I have two machines, we'll call them machine A and machine B. Machine B is running a Windows service written in C#.net, as the Local System account. Machine A tells machine B's service (using WCF) to open a file located on the network. Since local system is not a network user, it does not have access to network files, and is unable to op...
How can a desktop application communicate with a Windows service under Vista/Windows2008/Windows7? The application needs to send small strings to the service and receive string responses back. Both are written in Delphi 2009. (Please provide sample code also) ...
I'm using C# with .NET 3.5 SP1 in Visual Studio 2008 SP1. I have a .NET Windows service that I install using the technique described by Marc Gravell here. This solution simply bypasses the need to use the InstallUtil executable directly, meaning that I do not have to include it in my InstallShield project. When the service is first in...
How do I install a service with some additional files in WiX, and define what file is the actual service EXE file? Scenario: I had a service which was just a single EXE file, and installed it as a Windows NT service in WiX with this code: <Component Id='InstallMyServiceComponent' Guid='{....}' DiskId='1'> <File Id='InstallMyServiceE...
ServerFault suggested I ask here. I need a directory watcher to trigger a command line FTP client to upload some files to a server. I don't care for the idea of keeping a connection to the server all day, so I need a directory watcher. This looks perfect, and I have tried everything I know possible. But I have hit the limit of my kno...
I'm trying to evaluate various techniques and libraries in an attempt to find a way to read Excel spreadsheets when running as a service on an NT server. So basically I'm looking for any methods/libraries that people know of that I can use. I need to be able to read .xls .xlsx .xlsm and .xlsb files. If anyone knows of anything else tha...
How can I monitor a Windows process and start it up if it is not running? I'd like to have something that starts up as a Windows service and can handle multiple processes. EDIT: Hopefully there's a ready to use library/component I can use and just tweak or configure instead of having to implement it from scratch. I know in the *nix worl...
I know (Windows Activation Service) WAS is advertised as part of Windows 2008/Vista/7 but since it appears under .NET 3.5 framework components in Control Panel Windows Components, I was wondering if anyone knows/has managed to run in under Windows 2003 as well. I'm trying to host a WCF server in WAS under Windows 2003 (written in .NET ...
I have a written a Windows Service in C#. It is functioning and performing well. I have added a WCF service to the Windows service to enable client applications to connect to the Windows service and obtain stateful information from the Windows service. I configured the WCF service to be a singleton, so that the same service instance is...
So we've produced a windows service to feed data to our client application and everything is going great. The client has come up with a fun configuration request that requires two instances of this service running on the same server and configured to point at separate databases. So far I haven't been able to get this to happen and was ...
I need a cache that responds to memory pressure like the one build-into ASP.NET. I'm not using a web site, however, I'm building a Windows Service. Any suggestions? (code, techniques, products, I don't care as long as it's in-memory) ...
I've written my first windows service in .Net. Can I communicate with this service from other .Net application? Can I execute methods on a service object from remote .net applications? ...
How to run .NET services from command line? net start "Sample Service" is not working. ...
I have a Windows service which I want to periodically execute an external program. I'm currently doing this the usual way Process program = Process.Start(@"C:\mpewatch\db_parameters\DBParameters.exe"); This doesn't seem to be working. I'm executing this from a separate thread which is started in my service's OnStart handler. Is the...
i am new to windows services programming. I have confusion about what to set the Account type while writing a windows services. how to choose or how to determine to which account type we need to set while writing a service. ...
I'm hosting a WCF service inside a windows hosted service. When I start the WHS, I get the following error: The ChannelDispatcher at 'net.tcp://mysecreturl/' with contract(s) '"IClass"' is unable to open its IChannelListener. System.InvalidOperationException: A registration already exists for URI 'net.tcp://mysecreturl/Indexer/'. ...
I have a Windows Service in C#. I want a certain thread to perform specific actions, but only when the CPU is idle. Is there a way to do this in C#. ...