I have made a service and cannot get it to interact with the desktop ... i tried the following in my service and checked that the interact with desktop was checked in the service manager.
vb
Public Class Service
Inherits ServiceHelper.Service
frm As New Form1
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Is there any work around to this Error: [URl]..I have a Windows Service that needs to interact with the desktop (actually just the Systray). This service is working fine under WinXP, but not under Vista. After reading the article above I find it difficult to comprehend that Microsoft would simply just "do away" with support for "Interact with Desktop" because of a flaw in the OS (this is an OS problem, not a developer issue). I've never heard of any professional organization removing a feature because they can't figure out how to make the feature secure?? I'm hoping this article is just out dated or was not for the released version of Vista.Under Vista Business x64, the option to "Allow service to interact with desktop" is a check box in the Service Properties (Log On) tab, so if this feature isn't available for Vista, when is the option displayed?? But it does appear that the check box does nothing when checked.
View 5 RepliesI have never interacted with Varbiles outside of the projject but now in need of it.I am developing a Windows Service Application that is multi-threaded. There is going to be a set of Global Varibles in the application that contain basic status information such as how many threads are currently running, What clients are currently connected etc.
Now I would like to develop another application as a monitor. This one would be a Windows Forms App and its sole purpose is to display to the user this information so that is can be monitored.Is there an easy way of doing this? If not I don't think I will bother as the Monitor is not essential.
I've seen loads of programs that use an icon in the system tray to let you interact with a windows service that is running on your machine but I am curious as to how this works. As I understand it, unless a service marks itself as 'interactive' then it has no way to communicate with the user's desktop and doing so is discouraged by MS (and even causes an alternate desktop to appear temporarily in Server 2008 in some cases). So I want to try and avoid doing this but I cant think how else I would do it, and even if I marked my service as interactive I'm not too sure how I could actually get it to show a notification icon in the system tray.
I assume I would have to use Windows APIs, unless just using the windows forms NotifyIcon class would work. I considered just having the system tray icon in a totally separate application that just communicates with the service via named pipes or TCP etc but I'm pretty sure this isnt how other programs do it because with most of them if you just kill the process that the service is running in then the icon disappears so it must actually be directly running from the service.
I am writing a desktop database application. I want my application to use SQL database.
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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.
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View 5 Replieshow can i refresh the desktop?
View 4 RepliesMyself Sandeep Francis I am working with a project tat can monitor the remote pc without knowing the user who uses that pc, the project module goes as below
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Is there a way to keep my application on top of the windows desktop, but other aplications can run on top of it?Like Windows Vista/Windows7 widgets.
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<?php
print_r($_GET); Prints all GET variables in a quite readable manner.
print_r($_POST); Prints all POST variables in a quite readable manner.
?>
to find out what GET's and POST's there are, but I'm not sure if JS stuff gets put in as a GET or a POST as its in the DOM.So all in all,I'm wanting to make a "Desktop" variant of there client. So basicly just a viewer of the dial pad. And detection of new calls in the queue, things like that. So i want to read data from the website, display the dialpad(just showing a segment of the website) and send the request to accept a call(and maybe a few other small pieces of data).
At user login, launch an app I have created. This app opens a web site in a webbrowser control, logs the user in to the web site, and parses links from the resulting web page. These links are links to launch citrix sessions on another farm.
Create another app that appears on the start menu for the logged in user. User clicks on this app, it communicates with the launch app to basically click the href associated with the citrix app within the webbrowser control. Then this app will go away...
I have already coded the first app and figured out how to click links within the webbrowser control. What I can't figure out is how to go about implementing the second app, that runs as a separate app, but communicates with the first app to do its business. I see a plethora of options such as MFC, AppDomains, RPC, and so on. My question is which is the best practice to have one app interact with another and have the other app take actions based on that interaction? I prefer to stick completely to vb.net.
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Im not understanding something or I am missing something.I can't use: "Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop" as it is not recognized.How do I interact with an Excel file? None of the examples I have viewed have been able to work.I opened one VBform (only the form) by ".paul." (in his sig) but could not get it to convert to 2010 and although I was able to get his code loaded I could not use any of it.The strange part is in his module there were no errors, import (copy and paste) any of it to my project and everything had errors.I believe .pauls.'s example was:"Imports excel=Microsoft. Office. Interop" which was not being accepted in my project.
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