windows-services

I have written a program in PowerShell that loops and checks stuff. I would like to convert this into a Windows service. I've created a Windows service (in Admin->Services) but I can't start it. I'm pretty sure I'm missing the proper interface that the system needs to call into in order to start/stop/pause/etc the service. I can find plenty of examples when it comes to doing it in VB/C#/MS-lang but nothing about how to do it using PowerShell. Is there any documentation (or preferably code examples) out there to help with this? If you absolutly want to execute your PowerShell code into a

I've seen a fair few posts regarding this issue but non that seem to fit my criteria. Having said that, this is the first one that I've built that "needs" to perform a tremendous amount of logic. All works great for a couple days but after that logic stops working with no log in the event viewer nor firing of an email (exceptions). I'm wondering if my logic is not correct... Looking for advice and pointers. public partial class QuayService : ServiceBase { private System.Timers.Timer m_mainTimer; private bool m_timerTaskSuccess; private Email _email; public QuayService() { InitializeComponent()

I have a Windows Service (created using this tutorial ). And I am trying to run an IAsyncOperation : var uri= new Uri(@"uri/to/second/app"); var options = new LauncherOptions { TargetApplicationPackageFamilyName = "second-app-guid" }; var results = await Launcher.LaunchUriForResultsAsync(uri, options); However, I get the following error from the await : The type 'IAsyncOperationWithProgress<,>' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'Windows, Version=255.255.255.255, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null, ContentType=WindowsRuntime'. The type

I have been doing some extensive testing of a Windows Service I have been writing in C# .Net 3.5. I am having trouble getting Windows to give me enough time for my service to shutdown properly when I restart or shutdown the computer even though I am invoking the RequestAdditionalTime() method which should update the SCM and keep my service running. My code works properly if I manually stop the service however. I have primarily been testing this code in Windows Vista and Windows 7, upon deciding to test the code in Windows Xp everything worked perfectly. Does anyone know why this call does not

UPDATE ** STILL LOOKING FOR A CORRECT ANSWER ** I have the following code in my windows service and I want to run a batch file. I want the command prompt window up so I can see progress here is my code but my batch file code doesnt work using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Diagnostics; using System.Linq; using System.ServiceProcess; using System.Text; using System.IO; namespace Watcher { public partial class Watcher : ServiceBase { public Watcher() { InitializeComponent(); FolderWatcher.Created += FolderWatcher_Created;

I'm trying to catch all OutputDebugString messages (including those from services) using the following code. It worked fine until I migrated to Windows 7. The problem is that since Windows Vista services are running in the low level Session #0, some people say that it's impossible to catch them and some that it is. What do you think? Is it possible to modify the following code by increasing some rights to be able to receive OutputDebugString messages from the Session #0? In other words; is it possible to share DBWIN_BUFFER in the session #0 with Session #1? I would say it should be possible