I have a Windows Forms application that I wrote that does some monitoring of an inbox and database. The customer has informed me that it needs to run every time the server reboots. Shame on me for letting the customer change the requirements. I was thinking ... is there any way to make a Windows Forms application run as a service so t...
I am reading about how you can create an .exe that will install a windows service to the server. Say I already have the windows service installed and I want to perform an update. Is there a way for the installer to uninstall (stop the service, delete it, uninstall it) the currently running service and then install the updated version? ...
Hi, I have my SNMP Extension Agent DLL that is called by the Windows SNMP Service (snmp.exe) everytime i do an snmpwalk (another console application) .I want to step into my DLL code that is called from the above Windows Service. How do i go about doing that? Thanks Som ...
I have a .Net service that has begun to refuse to start - the system log shows that it "was successfully sent a start control" and then five seconds later the "service entered the stop state". I have the Main() function of my service class wrapped in a try/catch block -- but when this situation occurs, no errors appear in my events log ...
When an application is running as a Windows Service (written in .NET), what would be the best way to detect whether or not a user is logged on, and when a user logs on, to be able to begin displaying the necessary dialogs, or when that user has logged off, so the display of dialogs can be prevented? I hope I phrased this correctly :) ...
I want to write a console or Click Once WinForms app that will programmatically stop and/or start a windows service on a remote box. Both boxes are running .NET 3.5 - what .NET API's are available to accomplish this? ...
I'm trying to install windows service using the Microsoft.Sdc.Tasks library. <ControlService Action="Install" ServiceName="Service1" User="XXX Password="XXX" ServiceExePath="$(DeployFolder)\XXX.exe"/> But I keep getting prompted for the user and password! This will not work as I'd like to have it as an automated build...
I have the service name for a windows service in delphi, and I know how to get the handle from that as well. What I need to do is stop a service, and if the stop fails for some reason I need to kill the process associated with the service. The problem is that I have multiple services running from the same executable, so I can't use the...
I have a windows service that has a custom configuration section. In the configSectionHandler class I am using attributes on the properties to validate the settings like this: //ProcessingSleepTime Property [ConfigurationProperty("ProcessingSleepTime", DefaultValue = 1000, IsRequired = false)] [IntegerValidator(MinValue = 5...
I have a windows service listening to messages from a queue but the messages are not read from the queue.I created an event log to check for logs during service startup and shutdown but the logs are not written. I do not want to debug the service since it is a painful process.Is there a way to solve this issue.The messages need to be rea...
I know how to "create" a Service application. I know what to write in the main() function. I know how to add an EventLog (or other components) to the service. I know how to define what happens when the service starts, stops or resumes. What I want to know is this... I want my Windows Service to perform certain function (like Indexin...
I have a C# Application that does some maintenance tasks. It needs to run roughly every hour, although it's not too important if it's a bit off. And it has to run on a Win2003 Server with no one logged in. Basically I wonder if I should write a Windows Service, and if yes, if Thread.Sleep() is a proper way to pause the Thread for an hou...
I'm using VB9 (VS2008). I've created a Windows Service that indexes some folders regularly. Is there a way I can put an upper limit on the CPU usage depending upon the current system state, i.e., if the system is idle, the thread can use the CPU as much as it needs, but if there are other programs/processes running then it should use t...
I'm developing a Desktop Search Engine in VB9 (VS2008). Is it normal for a Service to take up 9MB of Memory while the only Thread involved in the Service is sleeping? The code includes following import statements... Imports System Imports System.IO Imports Microsoft.Win32 Imports System.Threading There are a few class variables in t...
I am currently building two windows services: The first takes messages from an internet connection and inserts these into a database. This is designed to be fast and stable and not do any other processing The second performs a batch process with any new messages that have arrived since it last ran. I am trying to think of a way so th...
Hi, I'm using boost::interprocess to communicates between two applications. When the two applications are launch by the same user, it works great. When one of the application is a service, it fails. I found that the shared media is in fact a file that is created in the "TMP" directory. So it fails because each application is creatin...
I need to find a way to monitor the status of a list of Windows services over HTTP, preferably without any third party program). All I really need to be able to do is display the service name and its status ('Started' / 'Stopped'). I'm not an ASP programmer so this is a little outside my realm. I've searched and haven't been able to f...
I have Tomcat 5.0.30 installed as a Windows service. This service is starting perfectly fine. However when I try to restart or stop the service from the Windows services console, I'm getting the following error: * Could not stop Tomcat service on Local Computer. Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or the control...
I'm pretty sure that a Windows service gets C:\winnt (or similar) as its working directory when installed using InstallUtil.exe. Is there any way I can access, or otherwise capture (at install time), the directory from which the service was originally installed? At the moment I'm manually entering that into the app.exe.config file, but...
A lot of windows services write daily log files to their application installation directory under "program files". Windows system apps (eg IIS) use %SystemRoot%\System32\LogFiles. Is something I should do for my service? ...