I have some security related service running on my machine (start type = automatic) In the service control manager, the stop/restart commands are grayed out. I was wondering how can I develop such service for which the stop operation is disallowed. Note that I am logged in as an administrator ...
I have created a windows service in C# VS2008 that uses a reference to an external class library to wrote. I have added the reference to it in VS2008. When I run start the service it throws an exception when trying to access the external DLL: Could not load file or assembly 'vcribAPI, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=n...
I've got Hudson (continuous integration system) with the git plugin running on a Tomcat Windows Service. msysgit is installed and the msysgit bin dir is in the path. PuTTY/Pageant/plink are installed and msysgit is configured to use them. When I run a job that attempts to clone the git repository I get the following error: $ git clone...
I'm struggling to write a Windows Service that accesses a website, logs in using stored credentials, and downloads the HTML to parse it. What do you think is the best way to go about this? ...
Bear with me on this one. I have a Windows service which can play .wav files for alerting. As long as the computer has a sound card and speakers, it works fine. There is also a GUI that lets the user choose which sound that the service will play. When the user is connected via Remote Desktop to the GUI and tests the sound, he hears i...
I'm debugging a service that's experiencing some problems on start-up. To aid me in this, I'm wrapping pretty much everything in a try/catch block, and writing any errors to a file. I don't want to put them in every method, I just want to put them in the highest level methods so that they catch exceptions from other methods. Something i...
protected override void OnStart(string[] args) { AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += new UnhandledExceptionEventHandler(CurrentDomain_UnhandledException); Thread.Sleep(10000); throw new Exception(); } void CurrentDomain_UnhandledException(object sender, UnhandledExcep...
How to handle the onStop event in the Windows Service created in C#. ...
Hello, I have a legacy Windows server service and (spawned) application that works fine in XP-64 and W2K3, but fails on W2K8. I believe it is because of the new "Session 0 isolation" feature. Consequently, I'm looking for code samples/security settings mojo that let you create a new process from a windows service for Windows 2008 Serv...
I need to lock the workstation from a windows service written in VB.Net. I am writing the app on Windows 7 but it needs to work under Vista and XP as well. User32 API LockWorkStation does not work as it requires an interactive desktop and I get return value of 0. I tried calling %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation...
I have created a windows service which is continuously polling a database. For this purpose i have a timer in place. Ever time i am querying a database table i open a connection and close it immediately after my work is done. Right now i am doing this every 20 seconds for testing purpose, but later this time might increase to 5 - 10 minu...
I have been quite comfortable with windows-services, I have been practicing since from last two weeks. Would you please explain me some of the basic applications of Windows service, so that I can take it as homework and practice. (it need not be too basic) I have already designed and implemented a project/service which is meant for cl...
I am trying to design a windows-service which monitors a process namely "Gtalk", if the process is started then, the browser Internet-explorer (process iexplore) should be closed. This should happen only when the process "Gtalk" is started, [not when running] The code I have written and implemented, doesn't allow to open IExplore when G...
I have an application, written by me in C#.net 2.0 - when the application is opened, a timer will check every 3 seconds for x. If x happens, it shows a warning in a windows form. Is there a possibility to install this timer and the windows form call in a windows-service? So that the timer ticks every time a system is up and shows the me...
I am designing a piece of software that needs to operate different pieces of hardware based mainly on a schedule but it also needs to have a web interface for configuring settings, configuring the schedule, and possibly even manually controlling the hardware. I'm not sure how to design the architecture of software like this. One though...
Hi, Just wondering, if I install a Windows service from 64-bit process (service code embedded in the process), is the service itself Win32 service or can services be 64-bit as well? I need to know this since my service would inject code (DLL-injection) to Win32-process, so due to WOW64 restrictions the service-process itself cannot be ...
I'm doing a windows service setup project on VS2008, it has a custom action for setting app.config values. The setup work fine installing the service and setting the app.config values but when I try to uninstall the service, it removes the files but keep the service registered, so I can install it again using the setup, I need to use "sc...
I'm creating a distributed application that includes a lot of services and I'm looking for the technology that allows me to create and manage a lot of services easily. I know managing and deploying windows services is not fun. I'm thinking of using ASP.NET MVC as service host of my services where each controller action becomes essentia...
I'm writing in .NET a windows service that, at windows startup, executes some network operations. I noticed that my service starts before the network is up. How can I check the network connectivity? Or, better, how can I check if the dhcp gave me an ip? ...
I'd like to know if anybody knows of any systray applet to control tomcat service con windows xp... apache installs its own, and there's one for mysql in the mysql gui tools... so the only one I'm missing is tomcat... thanks a lot ...