I created a service in VB.NET and it runs fine on Vista, I can log off and switch users and the service auto starts and continues to run every time without fail.If I install and run the service on Windows 7, it will not start after a logg off/on or after I switch users.
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I have created a Windows Service in VB.NET (VS2010) that executes a certain task every minute. When the service is being stopped, either manually by the user, or when the system is rebooted, what can I do to make sure the task is being finished properly before the service is actually terminated?
View 1 RepliesI wrote a custom windows service (VB .Net) to run some processing on data files in the background of one of our servers. The service basically finds the next file to process, breaks it apart and makes a PDF or two - nothing super complicated. It utilizes a timer, if a file is not found, it waits a bit and checks again (repeat indefinitely). The service has run for a week or two with no issues/pausing/stopping. I have plenty of error handling for this and I have not been able to break it... until today.
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Code can be in C# or VB.Net.t is urgent P.S project deadline tomorrow
View 2 RepliesI've just installed Visual Studio 2010 Express on a new laptop running Windows 7 64 bit.
When I debug a VB project and an error is encountered a message is sent to the immediate window, but execution is not halted. This means I am unable to look at variables etc.
Since the coming of Windows7 at our office we have sometimes the issue that the print spool is crashing.Users don't have admin rights to restart the service so that leaves them only at restarting their computer as solution.Which costs alot of time... As we cannot find a final solution to this problem I've begin to write a small tool so they can restart it..I've only hard code a local admin account in the source for this operate for them..
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I have a working WCF, it is written in VB. I need to host it in Windows Services on a remote server. I cannot use IIS (they uninstalled after I had it installed). Specs are to host in Windows Services, the only way I can get around that is to quit.
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I've created a WCF service and, with help of others from this site and the department I work in, the WCF service is running as a service on my development machine. Tested it with a console app and it works.But, it's not supposed to be on my development machine. It needs to be on a different server.This is difficult because the server it is supposed to reside on DOES NOT have Visual Studio installed on it.So I cannot run the VS 2008 Command Prompt with installutil to run the WCF service as a service on that server.
View 3 Repliesi want to make a simple application to stop or start the Services in Windows XP. I'm using Vb.net 2005. I've googling and find that I should use "System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController". Does anyone have example for this?
View 2 RepliesIm making a services that will log every time it gets started and stopped. I have accomplished that easily, using the onstop and onstart events. Now, im trying to call an exe file that writes something on the log. im calling the exe file every 30 minutes, so i used a do while loop and a thread.sleep code. Now, I've put the loop inside the onstart event, i noticed that since its an infinite loop, the process never leaves the onstart event, and the services status is alway "starting".
View 1 RepliesHow do I create windows services in visual Basic 6.0
Do I need to use ActiveX Exe to create Windows services and if yes then what to do next.
Im having difficulties with thins one things >.<
im tryin to make a application that could disable 2 services when when i run the application. so it would change it from say running automatically to disable. i have a lot of computers i have to administer, and i dont feel like goin one by one doing. Nd ima need radio buttons because a few machines are w7 and others r xp nd they each got diffrent services that have to be disabled.
I created a simple windows service on my local PC and added the following code to it [code]...
Next I added a Setup project to this solution and added a custom action (By double clicking application folder then clicking add output folder then selecting primary output from the dialog). The solution builds fine but I have 2 problems.
1) Everytime I install the service, it asks me for the username, password and confirm password; I was wondering if there was anyway to get rid of it atleast while running locally. I tried setting the account type to user, local service, local system etc but it keeps popping up.
2) Once I enter the credentials (random ones), I get an error "No mapping between account names and security ids was done".
I'm wondering, do services run at the welcome screen??
View 1 RepliesI have a basic VB.Net application that gets data from some websites and then send them to a MS-SQL database automatically. I have developed it as a desktop application with a WinForm front end with logs writing to the WinForm continuously. Now, is it possible to convert the Winform to a Windows services so that I do not need to keep it opening in front of my PC and watching the logs, instead, it runs quietly in the background and the data gets logged into the system log viewer?
View 3 RepliesI need references to how to schedule emails to notifiy users on a specific date in the month (each month).All the references I stumbled upon were in C#.I'm not that advanced to convert them properly to VB dot net.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to add a reference to the windows media services, but I cant find the reference.I found lots of pages, downloaded the platform sdk, on my laptop, got a server with windows server 2008 and installed the server2008 there also.
View 3 RepliesIn our application, we have a number of Windows Services (more than 30) that must run behind the scenes to process data at given times throughout the day. I was attempting to create a BaseService class that I could inherit from that would log to our database when the service started or stopped as well as some other common functionality. However, I ran into a show stopper in trying to create BaseService as MustInherit as we have a number of MustOverride properties. The issue lies in:
<MTAThread()> Shared Sub Main()
Our code is all in VB (as you can probably tell). Given that it is a Shared method, I cannot have it be overriden (i.e. make it MustOverride). Without this method, the code will not compile, however it will not really work in the base class. The code in this method is:
Dim ServicesToRun() As System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase
ServicesToRun = New System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase() {New BaseService}
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun)
The BaseService (the name of my base class) cannot be created because it is specified as MustInherit. And therein lies my problem. I cannot create this in the Base Class and cannot override it in the inheriting classes.
I'm trying to write an application in VB 2010 that will allow me to send out stop and start commands for two services. I can get this to work in a batch file but not in VB, using either NET STOP and NET START and also using SC.exe Stop and SC.exe Start. But I don't seem to get anywhere if I try to use this in VB. So far this is what I have written, using the Print Spooler service as an example. The two services I actually want to stop and restart are the Server and Client services for efpos terminals that are attached to the computers. The service fails from time to time and I want to provide a solution for our users that is quick and easy for them to use, and most importantly doesn't require them to restart the computer, while they have a line up of people waiting to pay.
Code:
Private Sub SpoolerStop()
' Stops the spooler service
Dim StopSpooler = "C:windowssystem32sc.exe stop spooler"
End Sub
No matter what search terms I try in Google I get very little on using VB to interact with Windows Services.
I have created a service which correctly starts in the services section in windows. Now I am trying to get it to trigger an event.I put a message box in the timer section just to experiment with getting it to pop up and it does work when I run it within vb but when I deploy it as a service it no longer pops up.
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View 13 RepliesI'm working on a application which suppose to work as a interface between multiple applications. as a example, one PBX system sends me data via TCPIP or COM ports and I manipulate it and send to PMS application. likewise PMS also send me data which I need to send back to PBX system.By query is, I don't have a fix number of communication interfaces and it can go up to 8 - 10 or may be more and they should work independently (should be able to switch off communication at any time in any interface).
In this situation, I cannot handle everything in one service or two since I don't know how many interfaces going to be. So I'm thinking a way to create services dynamically such as when user create a new interface in application it automatically creates the windows service on server or pc.I don't really need to create services remotely since my application will install only in one pc or a server and system administrator will access the server for the configurations.
I've set up an application that runs as a service, auth'd as LocalSystem. One of it's functions is to establish the logged in windows user's username.All I'm getting with the following is either the SID or username of the user (localsystem) running the service.
my.user.name
WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name
WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().User
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In order to send out emergency alerts in our organization, I created a windows service that checks a web service (WCF) to see if an emergency alert is pending. If there is a pending alert the windows service then runs a windows form application (exe) to display the alert message. Now my problem......These services are running on a windows 7 machine. When the exe for the alert message runs, it pops up a message stating.
View 4 RepliesI am developping a Windows Service in Visual Basic, witch will start an *.exe when starting. It's working pretty fine. Now how can I stop this *.exe while stopping this windows service? My code is as below:
Public Class MyWinService
Dim RetVal
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I'm trying to Debug and code an program in VB.net 2005 in windows XP. When I start my service and attach it for debugging it hangs at the line:System. ServiceProcess.ServiceBase. Run(ServicesToRun)The service says it is started under windows service dialog, but does not go further in the code, it just sits there..Does anyone have any solutions to this problem? I had this problem before but it usually start after a few moments,it seemed to get progresively worst, were now it doesn't progress at all, and just stays hung. [code]
View 6 RepliesHow may I trouble shoot this problem? The contextmenu doesnt show up at all. This is a windows service project with a NotifyIcon and ContextMenuStrip.
Imports System.ServiceProcess
Imports System.Threading
Public Class CORGate
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I'm trying to write a windows service using vs 2008. I've worked some on services written with VS 2005, but I'm not sure if I've written one from scratch before. When I create my Windows Service, it creates a new class called Service1.vb. If I go to the methods available for Service1, I see OnStart, OnStop, New, and Finalize. The Windows Service that I have that was written in VS 2005 also has an OnPause and OnContinue events. I need these in my service as well.
View 1 RepliesIs it possible to view every process that is accessing memory as well as windows services as well as how much thier accessing I want to make a program that can kill and block things accessing memory to block malicious programs to be able to delete the ie spyware that can't be fixed cause it adds it's self and locks it's self. From programs like spybot I can view the processes bit that's just wat windows registeres I need to look at eat is accessing memory.
View 6 RepliesI'm a relatively seasoned VB (COM) vet but this is my first VB.Net application and as is my luck a web services application feeding off a site that I can't publicly mention nor can I post any code that may expose the site.
So, here's the problem. I have written a simple form and have 2 buttons. 1 button simply asks the webservice for it's version. This works no problem. I was able to load the web reference using their supplied WSDL file for this "version" class. Now that I have that working I think "GREAT, that was straight forward. I have my credentials, urls, etc working, the rest of this should be just as straight forward." (See where I jinxed myself here?)
Anyway, I move onto the next WSDL and set of classes and get that reference added no problem. (Man that took a LONG time, like 20 minutes.) I then build my "Get my order data" code syntaxes on the prescribed exposed classes and run my project just to see what errors I get. The "run" process takes almost 45 minutes to an hour..... It's as if the app is getting the WSDL set all over again but doing it over and over..... I have no clue what's going on.
I've tried to disable all the Windows 7 "potential" issues, UAC, firewall, etc, but these changes don't help. Anti virus, spyware, etc all these are off and no difference. I'm running VS2008 as an Admin, right click "run as admin", and have complete control over this machine. Any ideas, suggestions, etc are VERY welcome and I am happy to expose as much of this application as I can providing I can stay with in the rules of the confidentiality contract.
