I finally implemented a the solution suggested by @A_nto2 and it achieved exactly what I was looking for: I now have a Windows Service that monitors a list of processes and whenever they are down, they are launched again automatically using the active user’s credentials and session, so the GUI is visible. However, since the … Read more
Check out the following library: Win32Utils. You can create a simple service that you can start/stop/restart at your leisure. I’m currently using it to manage a Mongrel instance for a Windows hosted Rails app and it works flawlessly.
Either you are not starting any threads on the OnStart method to do work, or there is an exception raised within your OnStart method. If an exception is thrown, it will appear in the Windows Event log. The Windows Event log is a good place to start in any case. Generally an OnStart method looks … Read more
Before a Windows Service can run, it has to be “installed” first using installutil. EG: C:\installutil -i c:\path\to\project\debug\service.exe Then you can open up the list of Services to start it. EG: Right click ‘My Computer’ Click on ‘Manage’ Open up ‘Services and Applications’ Click on ‘Services’ Find your service in the list and right-click on … Read more
You can also try doing this: Close all the UI design pages Clean Solution Build Solution Open the desired UI design pages This might or might not help but it certainly resolved the same issue in my project.
I created a set of batch scripts that use sc.exe to do just this. They are attached below. To run these scripts, you should be a user with administration rights on the target machine and running this from a computer that is a member of the same domain. It’s possible to set it up to … Read more
You need to open the Service.cs file in the designer, right click it and choose the menu-option “Add Installer”. It won’t install right out of the box… you need to create the installer class first. Some reference on service installer: How to: Add Installers to Your Service Application Quite old… but this is what I … Read more
In the service project do the following: In the solution explorer double click your services .cs file. It should bring up a screen that is all gray and talks about dragging stuff from the toolbox. Then right click on the gray area and select add installer. This will add an installer project file to your … Read more
I ran into a similar problem while building a Windows Service. Just like you, I had the Session ID and needed to get the corresponding username. Syed’s answer above did not work on my machine (Windows 10) as Microsoft seems to have removed the quser executable. After several unsuccessful solution hereon SO, I ran into … Read more
Debugging Results: Following a lot of debugging (by original poster – OP) this turned out to be a known MSI issue described here: https://wix-users.narkive.com/EMfQPDrM/a-bug-get-reg-sz-when-using-type-integer. Nice search work. What is in a DWORD? (a REG_SZ apparently): Essentially MSI “converts” a DWORD value found via a RegistrySearch operation to a formatted string – REG_SZ – during upgrade … Read more