windows-services

Is there a way for an .NET library to detect whether or not it is being run as a service? My library can be run either way. But when its run as a service, developers need to call an additional method indicating that fact or certain features won't work correctly. I want my library, which handles logging, to write a warning if it is used in a service without that method being called. Rob Parker After much searching through intellisense, the debugger, and documentation we weren't able to find anything strictly reliable. It may be possible to get the current process Id and try to find out if that

This is my first post, so let me start by saying HELLO! I am writing a windows service to monitor the running state of a number of other windows services on the same server. I'd like to extend the application to also print some of the memory statistics of the services, but I'm having trouble working out how to map from a particular ServiceController object to its associated Diagnostics.Process object, which I think I need to determine the memory state. I found out how to map from a ServiceController to the original image name, but a number of the services I am monitoring are started from the

Here is the situation: I have been called upon to work with InstallAnywhere 8, a Java-based installer IDE, of sorts, that allows starting and stopping of windows services, but has no built-in method to query their states. Fortunately, it allows you to create custom actions in Java which can be called at any time during the installation process (by way of what I consider to be a rather convoluted API). I just need something that will tell me if a specific service is started or stopped. The IDE also allows calling batch scripts, so this is an option as well, although once the script is run,

In a .NET Windows service (C#), how can I get the computer name? Is this a reliable method, or should I wrap it in a try/catch? Look at the Environment class . There're lots of nice things in there, including the MachineName : string CurrentMachineName = Environment.MachineName; According to the docs, this could generate an InvalidOperationException so you'll need to be aware of that possibility. The risk probably doesn't warrant wrapping it in a try/catch, though. I think first you have to decide what you mean by "computer name". As others have said, and possibly "traditionally" on windows,

This question already has an answer here: How to create windows service from java jar? 8 answers I have a JAR file and I would like to register and run it as a Windows service. With a well-configured JAR and already registered JVM shutdown hooks it should not be a big work to do this. I already have a JAR with external lib dir, I can start it with java -jar My.jar and stop with Ctrl+C . I also checked JSL, JSmooth, and procrun from Apache with no working solution. I would need a working solution with a good tutorial. Update: I succeeded with both procrun (at last), and the manual .net service