I wrote the following code to achieve it. protected override void OnStop() { int timeout = 10000; var task = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => MyTask()); while (!task.Wait(timeout)) { RequestAdditionalTime(timeout); } } The above code starts a Task in Parallel to the main thread (Task start running immediately), next line is to check if task is completed or … Read more
I created a 3 service project (below) which uses a project installer for each service. I then added an installer project which installs the services into service manager. Here was my workflow: Create 3 services in a solution in Visual Studio 2008. Naming each service as Service1, Service2 and, Service3. (Being sure to change the … Read more
Check the InnerException property of the TypeInitializationException; it is likely to contain information about the underlying problem, and exactly where it occurred.
What you can do is have the windows service have way of registering for an event (you can do this through using Windows Communication Foundation). When your error comes up, it fires that event, and your winforms app will be notified. It’s called a duplex contract: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wcf/thread/0eb69998-0388-4731-913e-fb205528d374/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731184.aspx Actually the really cool thing is that … Read more
This code should be enough to get you started: Form1.cs namespace TestWinform { public partial class Form1 : Form { private ServiceHost Host; public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { Host = new ServiceHost(typeof(MyWcfService)); Host.Open(); } private void Form1_FormClosed(object sender, FormClosedEventArgs e) { Host.Close(); } } } App.config <?xml version=”1.0″ … Read more
One option is to have background application that automatically starts when user logs on and listens to commands from your service through WCF, or thrift, or by just monitoring some file and reading command from there. Another option is to do what you originally asked for – launch using windows API. But the code is … Read more
If you are writing this in C# you might want to look at the SqlBulkCopy class. Lets you efficiently bulk load a SQL Server table with data from another source.
Services are run by the windows service hosting system, which runs using MTA threads. You can’t control this. You have to create a new Thread and set its ApartmentState to STA, and do your work on this thread. Here’s a class that extends ServiceBase that does this: public partial class Service1 : ServiceBase { private … Read more
You can use waitable timers to wake from a suspend or hibernate state. From what I can find, it is not possible to programmatically wake from normal shut down mode (soft off/S5), in that case, you need to specify a WakeOnRTC alarm in BIOS. To use waitable timers from C#, you need pInvoke. The import … Read more
If you use WMI, you can set the credentials in ‘ConnectionOptions’. ConnectionOptions op = new ConnectionOptions(); op.Username = “Domain\\Domainuser”; op.Password = “password”; ManagementScope scope = new ManagementScope(@”\\Servername.Domain\root\cimv2″, op); scope.Connect(); ManagementPath path = new ManagementPath(“Win32_Service”); ManagementClass services; services = new ManagementClass(scope, path, null); foreach (ManagementObject service in services.GetInstances()) { if (service.GetPropertyValue(“State”).ToString().ToLower().Equals(“running”)) { // Do something } … Read more