windows-services

I have a windows service which fails in Init() method and throws some exception , so only way for me to check what the error is by looking at the event log. I want to debug the windows service, but the problem is that i can attach debugger only when service is rnning, in my case it fails in Init() method only. Any idea ? you can programatically attach the debugger as the first line in the function: Debugger.Launch (); after adding the using statement: using System.Diagnostics; What I usually do is to have a class with a static void Main() entry point, which I can then temporarily assign in the

I am trying to create a window service to create a small keylogger application. I am new to Windows services and my sole purpose is to learn. How can I obtain all the events that are available in Winforms, but in a Windows service? I've tried searching on Google, but I'm unable to find out how to do this. I'm getting many references to keyhook DLLs. Windows Services are not form based therefore you cannot do it that way.... Have a look here for an example of how to create a Windows Service that kills other windows. A window service is not an ideal spot to place a form on... think of a daemon

I'm creating a service that will run processes on user interactive session. I found how to start process from session 0 in a service, I found how to catch when a user is logged on. But I need to know if a Windows session is an interactive one or the list of interactive Windows sessions. First setup your interop declarations. This is the hardest part DllImport("secur32.dll", SetLastError = false)] private static extern uint LsaFreeReturnBuffer(IntPtr buffer); [DllImport("Secur32.dll", SetLastError = false)] private static extern uint LsaEnumerateLogonSessions (out UInt64 LogonSessionCount, out

I have a windows services that bind to some TCP port, this port is use for IPC between my application. Is there a programming (WinAPI/WinSocket and etc) way to know which application connected to my port? i.e. in my Windows Services I would like to get a PID of the process that connected to my port. If you're looking for WinAPI way of doing the same as netstat . You probably want the following API: GetExtendedTcpTable Look for the results with TCP_TABLE_OWNER_PID_ALL argument. The resulting MIB_TCPTABLE_OWNER_PID structure has many MIB_TCPROW_OWNER_PID structures that has dwOwningPid which is

Closed. This question is off-topic . It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it's on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 8 years ago . See Server Fault: How do I configure proxy settings for LOCAL SYSTEM? I have a Windows service that needs to start up IE with certain proxy settings (e.g. host name and port). If the service is configured to run as some normal user (e.g. me), I can ensure the required IE proxy configuration by programmatically setting the following values in the "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings"