I have a project that creates and installs a window service. I want to uninstall it because it is running both on my PC and on another. I want to leave it on the other. So when I open VS with the project, I right-click on the servicesetup and choose uninstall and it says "This action is only valid for products that are currently installed." It is listed in control panel Services, so isn't it installed?
View 5 RepliesI have a Deployment project which creates an MSI setup file to install a service. (VB .NET) I have a reference to another project which is a win form application and has a setup form which takes the user name, password and some other settings information which will be used by a service. It has "Finish" and "Cancel" buttons. I am creating a new instance of this form on Sub New() of the ProjectInstaller Class, so user can input information, click Finish and installation completes. The service is then automatically started. Now, when I click Cancel on the settings form, I am not able to exit out and halt the installation process. Instead it installs the service !! How can I use the Rollback or Uninstall methods to do the task? I was trying this -
On cancel_click, set boolean var cacelStatus = True
On Sub New() method of ProjectInstaller class, I am checking - If true - uninstall, else - install
How can I achieve this?
Have a VB.net application that installs initially from CD and then when the user gets into the internet the application updates. In order to better support problems with this application is has been suggested in the past to uninstall it and do a fresh re-install. However, in investigation it was determined that the uninstall does not consider all installed objects and does not uninstall the CD install.Can the uninstall functionality be modified to catch the other instances of this application and also uninstall them?
View 11 RepliesI am making a server program, it works, cool.Made it display the info coming in via a textbox, the number of users connected, etc.I based it off of one of the members heres examples (jmcilhinney).However, I am kind of in a rock and a hard place.Do I try and convert it to a windows service so its on all the time? Or do I leave it in a exe format?I have never touched windows services before, but they look promising.However, this will be residing on a collocated server running Windows Server 2003.The problem with that is, if I run it. Person B, C, D, E, whoever.. can not see it due to the virtualized desk tops of RDC (even under the same username).I am kinda curious if I should make it a windows service, then make my 'display' program that just.. remotely taps into it to control it, and view stats and such.The 'server' will take info sent from the client, and add it into a database, then pass back some commands and such.
View 1 RepliesI want to ask regarding the window service. I have a window service doing some tasks in background with specific time, eg. 5 minutes Once it was doing its tasks, the cursor was keeping flash or something likes busy,
View 4 RepliesIf I have a custom windows service running on a server, is there anyway I can access the value of a property/variable within that service? For example, I would like to have a client vb program be able to "read" the value some variable from that service. A simple example would be the service would capture a boolean value of the success or failure of the last time it kicked off a process. I would then like to have a client windows app "connect" with the service and be able to read that boolean value.
View 3 RepliesIs it possible to set a timer for window service in app.config rather than giving a code behind code?
View 1 Repliesi had a program , run a word document and print , it work fine.but when i run this program as window service , it didn't print.i check server log , i found a problem.when this program run as exe, programrint all run as Administrator.when it as window service(Administrator) , programword run as Administrator , but print run as SYSTEM.
View 2 RepliesI want to know In which case OnStop() of .NET Window Service will not fire? will it fire when computer sudden restart,power failure , Shutdown or any other conditions?
View 1 RepliesI have a Windows Service -which contains a System.Timer -which get enabled and started in the OnStart event handler.In the Timer Elapsed event -I make a call to a routine within another DLL. The problem is that the Timer Elapsed event never fires... I have a test application -which works fine. This is written in VB.Net 2008 framework 3.5
View 3 RepliesI used the same lines of codes to call a SQL server store procedure to export sql data to an XML file:
1. If I call the stored procedure from a window form application, it works and generates the file at the designated location.
2. If I call the stored procedure from a window service application with a setup project, and the install process run well, and I started the service, and checked the event log, it showed the service start successfully, BUT it FAILED to generate the file at the destination folder. I also run everything as administrator, but it still failed to generate the file. It made me wonder if a window service can call a stored procedure. Because, again, mine ran fine with the window form appl, but window service, I would like to have your sample codes. I have googled around for 3 days now, but could not find the answer. I use vs 2008, sql server 2008, and Windows 7
We create a window service that will launch multiple process of an application with different configuration. And application further communicate with sql server. It works fine when we start service manually from service manager. It launch all the process ( try with launching 3 process ). But when we test it by restart the machine and service launch automatically then it launch only one process third one. I check the event log in event viewer. I see the following message by MSSQL$MSSQLEXPRESS service
Login failed for user 'dduser'. Reason: Failed to open the explicitly specified database. [CLIENT: <local machine>]
one thing we also tried by delaying ( with thread sleep ) the code execution of service. Then by starting machine again , it launch 2 process , first one still not launch.
I have a solution with two applications in it. One is a windows form application that I want to use to set and manage a windows SERVICE application app settings.
For example. The form has the database connection string on it, when updated. The windows service application settings are updated.. I can get it to work for the windows application, but I need to jump boundries to the other application( Windows Service) and update the app settings there.
I need to create a window service that will check a Date field in the database and on the basis of that date it will send an auto generated mail.I am new in the field of Window service.
View 1 Repliesi have a Windows service that is hosting a WCF service through net.tcp and this is working great. I have also created a WCF service application. I am trying to add the net.tcp service reference to the service application. Then I add it to the GAC that goes ok but if I try to RegAsm the WCF service application to allow it to be called from Server.CreateObject I get the error:
Warning: Type library exporter encountered a type that derives from a
generic class and is not marked as
[ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)]. Class interfaces cannot be
exposed for such types. Consider marking the type with
[ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)] and exposing an explicit
interface as the default interface to COM using the
ComDefaultInterface attribute.
It does not work. I have tried to call it through a class library but this does not work either as the end point is not set correctly.
I have a VB2008 application which can control a windows service i.e. start, stop, pause etc. This runs ok on a Windows XP machine but not on a Win 7 machine (message is - Service error cannot open <service name> service on computer '.') ( if I stop the UAC then it runs ok ). It seems to be a rights issue,
View 3 RepliesI am looking for a way to uninstall one Vb application from another.It just needs to run the uninstall you would find in add and remove programs.
View 8 RepliesI'm looking for any references on the best way to perform an unattended uninstall of a product using VB.NET. The product was installed using Windows Installer and the product name is Dell Kace Agent. I would like to perform the uninstall within the VB.NET code.Here's a VBScript that uninstalls a product using WMIC. This could be converted to VB.NET fairly easily, but is there a better way to perform a uninstall within VB.NET code than querying WMIC? I would rather not use WMIC to perform the uninstall maybe get the uninstall string from the registry?
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\" _
[code].....
How can i add a program to the add/uninstall program list? using vb.net
View 2 RepliesHow do I add an unistall shortcut. I am using deployment and setup>setup project to deploy.
View 3 RepliesSince installing Windows 7 on one of my test machines my automated uninstaller can not find the uninstall string. My script works on XP just fine. I noticed that the uninstall information is in a different location for Windows 7. it is in Wow6432NodeMicrosoft... is there a constant I can use that will allow my script find the correct uninstall location on both Windows 7 and Windows XP?
View 2 RepliesMy trial version of VS9 professional just expired and wanted to uninstall it, however upon loading, it goes into debug mode and displays the message;an unhandled win32 exception occurred in setup.exe [3816]If I do go into debug mode, then it loads VS but since my version is already expired, I can't do anything but close it...I can't repair it since I dont have the original installation files (its VS9 professional ENU, and microsoft doesnt have it up for downloads anymore.. but here is a SS of the other programes installed which are related to VS9.[URL]..
View 1 RepliesI have VB6 and i want to install VB.NET 2008 without uninstall VB6. Is possilbe? Can i works correctly both?
View 1 RepliesHow do i uninstall a product with win32_product?
View 1 RepliesI've taken MS 4994A (Intro to VB.net), and am studying for 4995A (Advanced Intro to VB.net)Previous experience with VB6 and C++ tells me that the way to do it would be to create a program that will accept a list of computer names and check the registry one-by-one (I'm open to suggestions, though, of course). If it finds the program we're wanting to remove, it will remove it, then automagically install .net 2.0 and the .net version of the programs that were just removed.
View 1 RepliesI am looking for a way to uninstall an application installed using the MSI Installer.I believe there should be a way out to directly call the Uninstall module specifically for a particular application using VB.Net.How can I achieve this using VB.Net? I am using VB.Net 2005.
View 1 RepliesIf there is any way to uninstall program or uninstall program from add/remove using vb.net codes?
View 4 RepliesI have an application that contains an MDB. This application has a feature that will allow the user to update the database to a newer version that is on a thumb drive.The database ispart of the application and is not user-updatable, so it seems as though it should live in the Program Files directory with all the other data files (xml, etc.)However, somehow it found its way into the Virtualstore.Now when I go through my process to update the database via the application when I try to run the application is is re-routed to the old mdb in the virtualstore.
But much worse than that, I found out that the virtualstore for the application survives a reinstall Now to my mind this is a huge bug because one would expect when one uninstalls and re-install an application that would have created a "clean slate" and everything would work correctly. But here I have an instance where the user thinks she has installed a fresh copy of the application but in fact is getting corrupted by old junk in the virtual store from a previous install.
how can i uninstall previous version of my windows applcation which is with different name and location? on installing new versions?
View 3 Replieshow can i unistall previous version of my windows applcation which is with different name and location? on installing new versions?
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