I wouldn’t use Thread.Sleep(). Either use a scheduled task (as others have mentioned), or set up a timer inside your service, which fires periodically (every 10 minutes for example) and check if the date changed since the last run: private Timer _timer; private DateTime _lastRun = DateTime.Now.AddDays(-1); protected override void OnStart(string[] args) { _timer = … Read more
You can use WMI, it is easy and it works a lot better than WndProc solution with services. Here is a simple example: using System.Management; ManagementEventWatcher watcher = new ManagementEventWatcher(); WqlEventQuery query = new WqlEventQuery(“SELECT * FROM Win32_VolumeChangeEvent WHERE EventType = 2”); watcher.EventArrived += new EventArrivedEventHandler(watcher_EventArrived); watcher.Query = query; watcher.Start(); watcher.WaitForNextEvent();
Roger Lipscombe’s answer, to use WTSEnumerateSessions to find the right desktop, then CreateProcessAsUser to start the application on that desktop (you pass it the handle of the desktop as part of the STARTUPINFO structure) is correct. However, I would strongly recommend against doing this. In some environments, such as Terminal Server hosts with many active … Read more
I’m going to take some liberties in here in trying to interpret your question from keywords. In the future, please spend more time writing your questions so that they make sense to another person who is trying to read and understand them. There is a checkbox under the Log On tab in the properties window … Read more
In VS – project properties – in the Build tab – platform target =X86
To create a Windows Service from an executable, you can use sc.exe: sc.exe create <new_service_name> binPath= “<path_to_the_service_executable>” You must have quotation marks around the actual exe path, and a space after the binPath=. More information on the sc command can be found in Microsoft KB251192. Note that it will not work for just any executable: … Read more
If I want to quickly debug the service, I just drop in a Debugger.Break() in there. When that line is reached, it will drop me back to VS. Don’t forget to remove that line when you are done. UPDATE: As an alternative to #if DEBUG pragmas, you can also use Conditional(“DEBUG_SERVICE”) attribute. [Conditional(“DEBUG_SERVICE”)] private static … Read more
Both System.Timers.Timer and System.Threading.Timer will work for services. The timers you want to avoid are System.Web.UI.Timer and System.Windows.Forms.Timer, which are respectively for ASP applications and WinForms. Using those will cause the service to load an additional assembly which is not really needed for the type of application you are building. Use System.Timers.Timer like the following … Read more
I’ve posted a step-by-step procedure for creating a Windows service in C# here. It sounds like you’re at least to this point, and now you’re wondering how to start the service once it is installed. Setting the StartType property to Automatic will cause the service to start automatically after rebooting your system, but it will … Read more
Use this at your own risk. (I have tested it on XP and Server 2008 x64 R2) For this hack you will need SysinternalsSuite by Mark Russinovich: Step one: Open an elevated cmd.exe prompt (Run as administrator) Step two: Elevate again to root using PSExec.exe: Navigate to the folder containing SysinternalsSuite and execute the following … Read more