windows-services

I'm developing a Windows Service in VB.NET 2008, but I feel like I'm going to have an aneurysm. To debug the service, I've added a 15 second wait to the initialization code, which gives me time to start the service and attach the .NET debugger before anything happens, so I can hit breakpoints and such. I really miss "integrated" debugging with this type of workaround, and testing seems to be a huge pain. What's the best way to do "regular" debugging of a Windows Service that's in development? One option I'd considered was moving all of my logic to a DLL project, leaving only control logic in

Is there any way to give string or byte array commands to a Windows Service? (When running) I will sometimes host a WCF service within a Windows service for the purpose of controlling the behavior of the service at runtime. If you really just want to send raw data to the service and you don't want to deal with configuring a WCF service (which really isn't that difficult to do, by the way), you could probably accomplish that using Named Pipes or by listening for socket connections on some port. You need some form of IPC (Inter-Process Communication). Which one you choose can depend greatly upon

I created a Windows service with Delphi and used two method to install, start and stop. Method 1 if i install this service using commandline C:\MyService\ServiceApp.exe /Install it installed successfully and i can start and stop too in the service console. Method 2 but if i install the same service with different name using sc e.g. C:\Windows\system32>sc create myservice binpath= c:\MyService\ServiceApp.exe I see it is installed but i can not start the service using service console as well as with sc start myservice when i do query using SC , result are as follows C:\Windows\system32>sc query

I want to know whether unhandled exception will make WCF service crash. I have written the following program which shows unhandled exception in a thread started by WCF service will make the whole WCF service crash. My question is, I want to confirm whether unhandled exception in threads (started by WCF service) will make WCF crash? My confusion is I think WCF should be stable service which should not crash because of unhandled exception. I am using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5 to develop a self-hosted Windows Service based WCF service. Here are the related parts of code, namespace Foo { // NOTE: