windows-services

I have some code to enable/disable the Windows Aero service in Vista, and I would like to run it in a Windows Service. The code works in a standalone application, but when I run it from a Service, nothing happens. No errors or exceptions are thrown. I realise that running code in a service is a different scope than running code in an application, but in this case, how would I enable/disable Aero from the service? Is this even possible? Here is the code I am working with: public static readonly uint DWM_EC_DISABLECOMPOSITION = 0; public static readonly uint DWM_EC_ENABLECOMPOSITION = 1;

I'm trying to understand if it's possible to access a Google Drive from a traditional Windows Service, without involving the user. Following the guides on https://developers.google.com/drive/quickstart , I've been able to create a command line application which uploads a file to Google Drive. However, this application launches the web browser and redirects me to Google's Authorization Server page which gives me an authorization code I have to enter in the command line app. Obviously this won't work for an application which is running as a Windows Service which will try to upload files to

I would like to run exes and Windows Services in Medium Trust, but all the literature I can find suggests using <system.web> <trust level="Medium"/> </system.web> for ASP.NET, so I have tried that but using code from How do you check if you are running in Medium Trust environment in .NET? it still appears to have full trust. What is the correct way to do this? The available approaches depend on the .NET version. Prior to .NET 4.0, the CLR enforced CAS policy, which made it possible to restrict permissions for any assembly. However, as of .NET 4.0, the CLR no longer applied CAS policy unless

I have the following procedure private static IMyInterface OpenInstance( string assemblyPath, string classType, string assemblyName, out AppDomain domainInstall) { IMyInterface interface = null; AppDomainSetup domaininfo = new AppDomainSetup(); domaininfo.ApplicationBase = assemblyPath; domainInstall = AppDomain.CreateDomain("PathInstall", null, domaininfo); ObjectHandle handleService = null; try { handleService = Activator.CreateInstance( domainInstall, assemblyName, classType, true, System.Reflection.BindingFlags.CreateInstance, null, new Object[] { assemblyName}, System.Globalization

So I've got a Windows service written in c#. The service class derives from ServiceBase , and starting and stopping the service calls instance methods OnStart and OnStop respectively. Here's SSCE of the class: partial class CometService : ServiceBase { private Server<Bla> server; private ManualResetEvent mre; public CometService() { InitializeComponent(); } protected override void OnStart(string[] args) { //starting the server takes a while, but we need to complete quickly //here so let's spin off a thread so we can return pronto. new Thread(() => { try { server = new Server<Bla>(); } finally