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I'm writing an application that is able to run as a service or standalone but I want to detect if the application was executed as a service or in a normal user session. I think you can query the process token for membership in the Interactive group. From http://support.microsoft.com/kb/243330 : SID: S-1-5-4 Name: Interactive Description: A group that includes all users that have logged on interactively. Membership is controlled by the operating system. Call GetTokenInformation with TokenGroups to get the groups associated with the account under which the process is running, then iterate over

Could anyone help me to know how to get the PID of a Windows service? I need to get the PID in order to run the following command: Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo { Filename = "cmd.exe", CreateNoWindow = true, UseShellExecute = false, Arguments = string.Format("/c taskkill /pid {0} /f", pidnumber) }); M C Assuming you know the name of the EXE the service uses and there is exactly one of them: int procID = Process.GetProcessesByName("yourservice")[0].Id; The method Process.GetProcessesByName("yourservice") returns an Array of Processes with your specified name, so in case you don't know how

I want to create a service that would listen to few Rss feeds and parse new feeds to jSon for further use. Is it possible to observe to feed changes and if yes then how? thanks Check out the System.ServiceModel.Syndication.SyndicationFeed namespace in the framework - it has pretty much everything you need to download feeds. Scott Guthrie has a couple of good example blog posts about reading feeds here and here . The only way to observe RSS feed changes is to poll the feed by requesting it over a set interval of time. This is because a feed is typically delivered over HTTP, which is a stateless

I'm working with a VB Script file written by someone else that uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) calls to check on the status of several Windows Services. This script runs every few minutes on set schedule. I need to upgrade/replace the .exe for those services. I stop the VB Script, stop the services, and uninstall the services so they no longer appear in the Services panel (services.msc). Unfortunately, WMI (wmiprvse.exe) still has a handle on the service .exe files. I can release the handle by rebooting the system, but I want to avoid that if at all possible so this can be a

I am having trouble starting my service on my pc. My code is based on this article http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1899.asp When i call installService from my int main(int argc, char *argv[]), it is registered successfully (i can see it in msconfig and services.msc). However it has not started. I manually start the service via services.msv and i get the error "Error 2: system cannot find the file specified". Why is this? i registered the services no more then a min ago, my external HD is still on (where this is currently stored. i'll move a nondev version to c:/ when its ready

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Learn more . Want to improve this question? Update the question so it's on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 6 years ago . How do you write and use a Windows Service in C#? What is the best way to that ? 来源： https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18573024/how-do-you-write-and-use-a-windows-service-in-c

This question already has answers here : Closed 7 years ago . Possible Duplicate: Programmatically add an application to Windows Firewall in my solution i have an windows service project and installer to install this service How i can add this service to Windows Firewall During Installation. Assuming we're using a Visual Studio Installer->Setup Project - You need an installer class like this inside an assembly that's being installed, and then make sure you add a custom action for the "Primary output" in the install phase. using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System