I'm trying to attach to a windows service I am running to debug it however the "Available Processes" list under "Attach to Process" it shows as disabled and won't allow me to attach. What am I missing? ...
I have a WCF process hosted in a windows service. I am wondering if I can safely have multiple WCF processes that do different things hosted in the same windows service. Do I have to worry about ports? I am using a mex endpoint ...
I have implemented a windows service application that will be deployed to multiple machines and run concurrently to process tasks in a central queue. I have a log file for each instance of service running. But I want to be able to monitor all instances of the service and retrieve application specific information, such as Name and ID of t...
Hi, I'm writing a simple Windows Service that sends out emails to all employees every month. My question is, how to stop itself when it's done? I'm a noobie in this field so please help me out. Really appreciated. It will be deployed on the server to be run monthly. I did not start this thing and the code was given to me like that. It i...
I am having trouble writing a program that I want to be active always. I wrote code on keydown to do something, but when form1 is minimized or in tray keydown event does not response. How can I get my application to respond to keyboard events even when it is not in focus? addition : its window app , and lang is c#.NET , ...
The deployment requirements for my app (a windows service written in C#) state the presence of a Proxy server. From my interaction with the person who will install my app: 1. His company blocks access to internet via the proxy 2. He needs to provide the path to the proxy script in his IE Config. 3. He also needs to input a user-name/pa...
i m using the following code. ServiceController MyController = new ServiceController(); MyController.MachineName = server_txt.Text.Trim(); MyController.ServiceName = "Service1"; string msg = MyController.Status.ToString(); Label1.Text = msg; This code work fine in the network computers wh...
I have a C# service. It is a memory and CPU pig. It will run all night, moving data in the database. Around 7 am it post to the event viewer, repeatedly, Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the ServName service. Then it stops unexpectedly. Does anyone have input as to what this message means, o...
Hello, I have created a Windows Service in VB.net for building xML from a database. I need to install it in my machine. I have followed all the steps as shown in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/816169 When I right click on setup project and click install it opens the installation wizard and after hitting the next buttons it...
I have got few questions regarding creating windows service. I have created a windows service.But Im getting an error reagrding that. public partial class xyz : servicebase { public xyz() { InitializeCompoenent(); } } it couldn't resolve InitializeComponent().Does anybody any reason. I have set it up out as console application instead ...
Hello I have a very simple windows Service that is developed in vb.net 2008. When I try to debug it by going to tools-> Attach to process though I see my service it is disabled and Type of Managed and I cannot select the process. How do I debug my service? Thanks ...
Windows Services can have parameters in the registry like in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BITS\Parameters I want to access the parameters of my own service written in C#. Is there an official way (e.g. via the ServiceBase class) to do that or do I have to hard-code the registry path, which I want to avoid? ...
How do I read performance counters in a .NET application without the application running as an administrator? The application is a Windows Service. The account it will run under is known at install time, so in theory I could add any non-admin permissions to that account at that time. ...
One windows service is there, let ‘A’. The Service A’s application data’s is pointing following path “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\” . And its installed in following path “C:\Program Files\”. It is having some config files in Application data’s section (i.e> in the following path “C:\Documents and Settings\All...
Hello all, I have an XML web service running on my Windows 2003 server. I have a windows service running on the same machine. I want to call the XML web service from the windows service. This works fine on my development machine, which is running Windows XP. However, when I try to do this on my Windows Server 2003 box, it times ou...
Let's say I have two windows services running. One service is 'Polling' - it polls the database for print jobs. As soon as the new print job is found, another service - 'Printing' - must send the job to the printer. (Why I can not do it with one service is a separate issue, let's just say there is a reason for that). The simple solutio...
How to start and and stop a windows service remotely using PSEXEC Preferable the syntax to write I tried the cmdlet given below psexec \Server -u Administrator -p Somepassword ServiceName Please can any body help me in this Thank You in advance ...
I have a windows service, written in c# and I need to run a console application from it. Console application also written in c#. Console application is running fine when it is run not from windows service. When it is ran from ws it doesn`t do anything it should and as it should work for 10-20 seconds I see in debug code is executed at ...
I have an application that manages the heavy processing for my project, and need to convert it to a "Windows Service." I need to allow running multiple versions instances of the application processing, which seems to be a fairly normal requirement. I can see at least three approaches to do this: Create a single installed directory (E...
Hi all, I am doing the walkthrough in the following link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zt39148a%28VS.80%29.aspx I have followed it exactly, line by line. I installed the service successfully, however, when I try to run it, the following error message appears: "An unhandled exception ("System.Security.SecurityException') occ...