How to run a windows service project from visual studio. I am building a windows serivce in visual studio 2008, I have to always run the service from control panel and then attach the debugger to running instance of the service. Its kind of annoying since I am cleaning a lot of code and need to restart my service many times during devel...
Hi, We have a service which is hosted as windows service. netTcpBinding with message security type without reliable session. On the client side we have a proxy collection cached in a list as channel creation and dispose is costly operations. My client is connecting to server and get the data from server. Now if I stop the server, then ...
My windows service is a data server with substantial cache. During service OnStop I save the cache so that no data is lost. Saving cache may take several minutes so to prevent windows service manager from timeout I use SetServiceStatus Win32 callback: this.serviceStatus.currentState = (int)State.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING; this.serviceStatus....
I own a copy of Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition, and I'd like to create a Windows Service. However, I don't have a Windows Service project template. According to this chart, Standard Edition should be able to create Windows Services. I tried running devenv.exe /InstallVSTemplates, but I don't seem to have any of the Windows Service t...
Hi there, I've got a service that's acting up. It won't recognize the following namespace declaration: using System.Windows.Forms; What I most need from the Windows.Forms namespace is a WebBrowser control. Any ideas on how to get this working? Thank you. ...
I have a .Net service that uses SENS to detect when a user logs on or off. I'm having two problems, though: Even though the service seems to be starting automatically, if there is only one user on the computer and that user doesn't have a password (meaning windows will start right away), the log-in doesn't seem to be getting detected. ...
Using C#, how may I get the time remaining (before the elapse event will occur) from a System.Timers.Timer object? In other words, let say I set the timer interval to 6 hours, but 3 hours later, I want to know how much time is remaining. How would I get the timer object to reveal this time remaining? ...
In my Window Service if Service is enable to connect to SQL Server it throws an exception and windows service will not start. To overcome this situation I have set recovery option of Windows Service to First Failure, Second Failure to Restart the Service, Reset fail count after 1 day and Restart Service to 0 minutes. What I want is when...
Is there any things to take care of when running your process or executable as service.Things like silent logging.Critical error reporting scenarios? etc? How do you handle it ? ...
I hav created two different windows services. Now i need to invoke the first service using the second one. How can i do tat? need help.......... ...
Some services can't start or stop with Service Management Console. ex) DcomLaunch, SamSs These services's stop button is disabled on Service Management Console. So, we can't stop the services.(Even if we have a Administrator account) Is it possible? How can I do that? Thanks in advance. ...
For accessing Windows CE devices from my desktop application I used self-written DLL. This DLL used RAPI to call necessary functions on device side. Everything has been working fine for years. But now I wanted to use this DLL in Windows service. And it failed. Debug shows that it is CeRapiInitEx() function that fails. And before failing...
I've been digging around Google trying to find the appropriate way to determine the installation path selected by a user from the install wizard. Basically I'm running into an issue where my service can't create files in it's own directory because it lacks the proper permissions. I'm assuming the correct way to resolve this is to make s...
I need to have a Windows Service polling a database 3 times a day and perform some batch processing on the polled data. I would also like the ability for an end user to inspect the polled data and perform one-off processing for particular transation types which are not allowed to be bulk processed by the Windows Service. i.e. the Windo...
Can I start a service on remote machine using NSIS script. I know we can use: sc \\machine start servicename through DOS prompt. But can we do the same in NSIS? Can SimpleSC be used for this? ...
I have users and processes on a web server. I'm looking to write a windows service that is capable of intercepting calls to create folders within a specific sub-directory. I've found several sources out there for reactively catching that a folder was created, but I want to create a windows service that will proactively intercept and pre-...
Hi, I have a window service for my application. When i stops that by killing process with task manager, tray icon does not disappears. Is it a window bug or something else? Do we have a solution for that problem? Thanks in advance :). ...
I have a component, which silently retrieves some data from web using .NET WebBrowser component. It is written so that it will not show any dialog boxes, or any other interactive UI components, but since it is a form component, I need to create a form and STA thread to host it. I'm then starting it using Form.ShowDialog() This works per...
@UPDATE: OK FOR ANYONE ELSE WHO IS SEEKING ADVICE ON THIS ISSUE... So far, the best thing i have found is to download yourself a cpy of pGina (http://www.pgina.org/) and for 2k/xp modify the GINA, and for vista/win7 you will need to create custom login credentials (pGina have the tools/samples to interface with the vista/win7 architectu...
I am developing a database file system.It includes a multi-directory watcher which is a windows service and which uses the file system watcher class from .net. I want to run each watcher class on separate thread.Thread can not be extended in .net because as it is "Sealed". What I want is, run all the methods of my watcher class in the r...