windows-services

I am working on a project right now that involves receiving a message from another application, formatting the contents of that message, and sending it to a printer. The technology of choice is C# windows service. The output could be called a report, I suppose, but a reporting engine is not necessary. A simple templating engine, like StringTemplate, or even XSLT outputting HTML would be fine. The problem I'm having is finding a free way to print this kind of output from a service. Since it seems that it will work, I'm working on a prototype using Microsoft's RDLC, populating a local report and

We are working with some legacy code that accesses a shared drive by the letter (f:\ for example). Using the UNC notation is not an option. Our Java wrapper app will run as a service, and as the first step, I would like to map the drive explicitly in the code. Has anyone done this? Consider executing the DOS command that maps a network drive as in the following code: String command = "c:\\windows\\system32\\net.exe use f: \\\\machine\\share /user:user password"; Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command); ... See details on net use command: The syntax of this command is: NET USE

Do I need to enable Interactive desktp for it to work and what is the correct code to start an EXE or cmd window? I'm still unable to start the service even when I had enable it to interact with desktop. I would be using an chat engine so it is easier to manage as a windows service. What wrong with my code? using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.ServiceProcess; using System.Diagnostics; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Threading; namespace MyNewService { class Program : ServiceBase { static void Main(string[] args) { } public