windows-services

We require that in a ASP.Net application, a .Net process should be invoked every day at a specified time automatically. This process needs to interact with the database (SQL Server 2005) and generate billing on a daily basis. We are using a shared hosting hence we are not able to create a windows service or create SQL Server jobs. How can this be achieved without user intervention? Jeff Sternal You could try the technique described here , used at StackOverflow itself (or at least it was used here at one point). In a nutshell: At startup, add an item to the HttpRuntime.Cache with a fixed

What's the best way to programmatically cause a Windows XP (or above) machine to wake up at a specific time. (Ideally a lot like how Media Center can start up automatically to record a particular TV program) I've got a Windows service (written in C#) and I'd like this service to be able to cause the machine it is hosted on to start up at predetermined times. Are there any BIOS settings or prerequisites (eg. ACPI) that need to be configured for this to work correctly? This machine would be using dialup or 3G wireless modem, so unfortunately it can't rely on Wake on LAN. You can use waitable

I have a Hudson build script which calls the SysInternals PsExec utility. Normally, when PsExec is run for the first time by a given user it pops up a dialog box asking the user to accept the licence. The build agent runs as a service and I can see that the build gets stuck at PsExec. Process Explorer shows that PsExec is running, so I strongly suspect it's displaying that same prompt, but because it's running non-interactively there is no way to accept the prompt. Is there any way to get around this silly limitation? Running on Windows Server 2008 R2 x64. Use the /accepteula command-line

I wrote a windows service that runs on Framework 4.0 and running in VS 2015. I also created a setup project (free Installshield version). My service did not show under services.msc after I installed it, so according to some other posts I had to mark the Primary Output in InstallShield as 'Installer Class', but when I do that I get Error 1001 when I run the setup.exe. This post states that "Error code 1001 ALWAYS means a failure in the Installer class custom action." and that I should not use Custom Actions. I'm not using any custom actions at the moment. Most of the solution on this site have

.NET Framework: 2.0 Preferred Language: C# I am new to TDD (Test Driven Development). First of all, is it even possible to unit test Windows Service? Windows service class is derived from ServiceBase, which has overridable methods, OnStart OnStop How can I trigger those methods to be called as if unit test is an actual service that calls those methods in proper order? At this point, am I even doing a Unit testing? or an Integration test? I have looked at WCF service question but it didn't make any sense to me since I have never dealt with WCF service. I'd probably recommend designing your app

I have a method that send some SMS to our customers that look like below: public void ProccessSmsQueue() { SmsDbContext context = new SmsDbContext(); ISmsProvider provider = new ZenviaProvider(); SmsManager manager = new SmsManager(context, provider); try { manager.ProcessQueue(); } catch (Exception ex) { EventLog.WriteEntry(ex.Message, EventLogEntryType.Error); } finally { context.Dispose(); } } protected override void OnStart(string[] args) { Task.Factory.StartNew(DoWork).ContinueWith( ??? ) } So, I have some issues: I don´t know how long it takes for the method run; The method can throw

In order to get sharding to work I need to run two copies of mongod.exe. One as a shard and one as the config server. How can I install both mongod instances as windows services? The following command line will install a 2nd instance of Mongo DB. Note that you have to provide serviceName , serviceDisplayName , port , dbpath and logpath in order to avoid collisions. mongod --install --serviceName " Mongo DB 2nd instance " --serviceDisplayName " Mongo DB 2nd instance " --port 37017 --dbpath c:\data\db2 --logpath c:\data\logs\mongolog2.txt Then you just start the service with net start " Mongo DB

I have a windows service application that work with multithread. I use NHibernate in data access layer of this application. What is your suggestion for session management in this application. I read about UNHAddins, Is it a good solution? I use NHibernate's built in contextual sessions. You can read about them here: http://nhibernate.info/doc/nhibernate-reference/architecture.html#architecture-current-session Here is an example of how I use this: public class SessionFactory { protected static ISessionFactory sessionFactory; private static ILog log = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(SessionFactory))

I'm trying to start a simple service example: someservice.py: import win32serviceutil import win32service import win32event class SmallestPythonService(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework): _svc_name_ = "SmallestPythonService" _svc_display_name_ = "display service" def __init__(self, args): win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__(self, args) self.hWaitStop = win32event.CreateEvent(None, 0, 0, None) def SvcStop(self): self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING) win32event.SetEvent(self.hWaitStop) def SvcDoRun(self): win32event.WaitForSingleObject(self.hWaitStop, win32event