C# Windows Services - Where Can I Find A Good Tutorial?
Regarding C# Windows Services... Where can I find a good tutorial? I'm looking for a tutorial that is good for beginners and people who are out of practice. ...
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How to start a windows service in Visual Studio 2008?
IN Visual Studio when I try to start a windows service project it tells me I cant because I have to use "NET Start" and so forth. I remember in VS 2003 that when I pressed play it started the service and stop stopped it. Is there any way that when I press play or start for that windows service project I can have this same functionality....
How to install and start a Windows Service using WiX
I tried to use the codes below in Wix. But when installing, the installer was freezing for like 3 minutes on status: Starting services, then I got this message "Service Jobservice failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services". Is there any wrong in my codes? And can I ask the user to input the win...
Windows service cannot access shared folder at boot time until manually started or Windows Explorer fiddled
I have a Windows service running in local system that simply keeps trying to access a file with a UNC path of the form \\machine\folder\file.txt until it succeeds. It succeeds immediately when I start the service manually, but on reboot it gets System Error 53 (Network Path not found) until I do something such as logoff or "fiddle" with ...
Windows Service Plus GUI/C#
I've seen some apps that run as a windows service but can still provide a GUI that allows the user to see what's actually going on. For example, we've got a windows service that builds reports. There are a number of stats that admins would like to see, such as how many reports are queued up, how much ram is in use, avg build time, etc....
How can I configure my windows service in the code to access the desktop?
I have created an windows service. I want to open some windows based application from this service. But my windows service is unable to start desktop applications. To enable the access I had to do the following steps: Opened the administrative tool "Services" Right clicked on my service and had to select "properties" Then in the "Log ...
SqlWebEventProvider w/ windows service
I am trying to raise some custom events to a SqlWebEventProvider from a windows service. Here are the steps I have taken and the results I have seen. I cannot figure this one out. Setup 2 healthMonitoring providers SqlWebEventProvider, and SimpleMailWebEventProvider (both .net 2.0 framework, and sqlwebeventprovider is basically the d...
Stop service at uninstall on Win 7 with UAC on from WIX
Hi, How can i stop my service at uninstall in Win7 or Vista with UAC on from WIX? When i uninstall my service from Control Panel in Win7 or Vista with UAC on I always get "File is in use message". How can i stop it so that message won't appear? I have this code in Wix: <ServiceInstall Id='MyServiceInstall' DisplayName='OnPremises ...
Windows Service And Thread Programming .NET
I have developed windows service to process files whose records will be stored in database. When windows service finds a file it creates a thread and assigns each file to one thread. I have not used Thread Pool. I wanted to know when windows service is stopped, then how to identify how many threads are running and whether they are comple...
Access Windows Share under Network Service account
I have two computers with Windows Server 2003. One computer has some shared folders on the network, and the other has a Windows Service (written in C#, running under the Network Service account) that needs to access those shared folders. The following code works fine as a logged-in user, but throws an exception when executed under the N...
Passing strings to .NET Windows Service
I am writing a ASP.NET queue processor. Users will login and upload data files to the site, and then click to start processing the data files. I have a Windows Service on the system that waits for items to arrive in the queue and processes them. So far everything works except the items in the queue seem to get lost. I believe the sta...
Communicating between a Windows Service and Exchange Server
I recently created a windows service which can wear various hats depending on what it needs to do. One of these hats is the ability to create update and delete outlook contacts on an exchange server. Before the windows service, the application ran as a windows app and used the outlook interop to get the job done. As a windows service tha...
How do we tell if a C++ application is launched as a Windows service?
We have a console app which we launch from command prompt for debugging, but we also launch this as an NT service for production. Right now, the code has this logic: if (__argc <= 1) { assumeService(); } else { assumeForgound(); } Is there a better way to check how the process has been launched? We're an open source project, so e...
How to install a Windows service using Qt?
We have an existing C++ application which uses WinAPI (let's call it "SvcApp"). We have another C++ WinAPI application called "MgrApp" which installs and starts "SvcApp" as a Windows service. However, we'd like to replace "SvcApp" with a Qt application. I may be misinformed, but it seems like it's not possible to use <windows.h> from a ...
Using RegisterDeviceNotification in a .NET app
I have seen some examples on how to use RegisterDeviceNotification from the Windows API, but I have not seen any .NET examples. I want to write a C# app that is notified when a new drive appears (specifically through USB, firewire, etc). This app needs to be a Windows service, so I can't use WM_DEVICECHANGE messages without some bad-prac...
How do I capture the output of a user defined service into a logfile, without programming?
I'm creating a service using the sc.exe command in windows xp I want to save the STDOUT messages to svc.datetime.log How do I do this? I'm using a batch file as a wrapper to an executable. No heavy lifting or .NET ...
System Design / Architecture Best Approach
Hi, I have a system, that has 3 general parts to aid my description. 1) DATABASE- to store all tables, this same database will store data for other services as well including a web application, silverlight etc... (Needs to be flexible, if on a remote server, can be exposed via a web service, if locally, can connect locally or via TCP t...
How to call method from running windows service
Hi, I have created and started windows service Service1 (with exe as MyService.exe) using c# 2005. . I have included a method GetMyRandomNumber() that returns a random double value. The problem here is how could use this running service and how could i call the method. I have tried adding reference of MyService.exe and access the meth...
.NET Windows Service installation problem on Windows 7 and 2008
Hello, I have problem installing simple Windows Service, my code looks like this: using System; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Diagnostics; using System.ServiceProcess; using System.Threading; namespace Tools.FileMonitorService { public class Service : System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase { ...
Watchdog win service to watch another win service
Hi, I want to make a windows service that monitors another windows service, and make sure that it is working. sometimes the Win Service that I want to watch stay in the memory (appear in task manager, so it is considered a running service, but the fact is that it is doing nothing, it is dead, its timer is not firing for one reason, which...