windows-services

How to call Webservice from Windows Service? I am having one webservice on my Webserver. I have a windows-service to trigger that webservice. So I just want to integrate and call my webservice from my windows service. How can I do that? EDIT: TempWindowService is name of my windows application MyServ is the name of my reference of my webservice. TempWindowService.MyServ newService = new TempWindowService.MyServ(); newService.BatchProcess(); Here BatchProcess() is the webmethod under my webservice. I get error on line TempWindowService.MyServ newService = new TempWindowService.MyServ(); Error

I have created an windows service. I want to open some windows based application from this service. But my windows service is unable to start desktop applications. To enable the access I had to do the following steps: Opened the administrative tool "Services" Right clicked on my service and had to select "properties" Then in the "Log On" tab, selected "Allow service to interact with desktop". After that my service can open desired windows based processes. Can I configure my windows service in the code (C#) to access the desktop so that I won't have to change the access permission manually

I've set up a WCF Library hosted in a Windows Service using the following walk-through: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff649818.aspx The consumer winforms is in the same solution, which is located locally on my work PC's C: drive. The walk-through works i.e. the winforms button gives me the correct answer. If I create a new Solution on the C-Drive with a single Windows Forms project in it I cannot successfully add a service reference to this running service, i get the following message: The detailed message says the following: The URI prefix is not recognized. Metadata contains a

I have a windows service which needs to monitor a directory for files and then move it to another directory. I am using a FileSystemWatcher to implement this. This is my main Service class. public partial class SqlProcessService : ServiceBase { public SqlProcessService() { InitializeComponent(); } protected override void OnStart(string[] args) { FileProcesser fp = new FileProcesser(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["FromPath"]); fp.Watch(); } protected override void OnStop() { } } This is my FileProcessor Class public class FileProcesser { FileSystemWatcher watcher; string directoryToWatch;

I am writing a windows service that uses ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem() . Each thread is a short-lived task. When the service is stopped, I need to make sure that all the threads that are currently executing complete. Is there some way of waiting until the queue clears itself? You could create an event (e.g. ManualResetEvent ) in each thread, and keep it in a synchronised list (using the lock construct). Set the event or remove it from the list when the task is finished. When you want to join, you can use WaitHandle.WaitAll ( MSDN documentation ) to wait for all the events to be signalled. It

I have added App.Config in my project. I have a installer class(ProjectInstaller.cs) which needs to read values from App.config. I am providing the keys . Below is the sample Code : ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["CONFIG_FILE"] I am getting null values as per above code ,when invoked in Installer class. But in App.Config file the value for the above key exists. Try: public string GetServiceNameAppConfig(string serviceName) { var config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(MyServiceInstaller)).Location); return config.AppSettings.Settings[serviceName].Value;