I had a very similar issue. In my case, the problem was with relative paths. I just had to specify the absolute path. Now it works like a charm. WriteTo.RollingFile(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + “\\logs\\log-{Date}.log”)
Solution (Version 107+) var options = new RestClientOptions(“baseURL”) { ThrowOnAnyError = true, Timeout = 1000 // 1 second – thanks to @JohnMc }; var client = new RestClient(options); Older Versions: to alter the default time out to: 5 seconds – for example – (i.e. 5000 milliseconds): var client = new RestClient(“BaseUrl”); client.Timeout = 5000; // … Read more
I’ve no idea if this is useful, but I’ve found that for every service, there is an option to add environment variables directly to a service. It is done via the registry. Say the key to your service is … HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\YourService Create a REG_MULTI_SZ called Environment. Now you can add entries like … Var1=Value1 Var2=Value2 … Read more
I seem to have a working implementation (Works On My Machine(TM)) for the following scenarios: Batch File, .NET Console Assembly, .NET Windows Forms application. Here’s how: I have a windows service running as the Administrator user. I add the following policies to the Administrator user: Log on as a service Act as part of the … Read more
The only way to unload types is to destroy the appdomain. To do this would require separation of your hosting layer from your executing service code – this is pretty complex. (sort of like doing keyhole surgery) May be easier to either a) run a batch task or b) in-service detect updates then launch a … Read more
You’ve got a couple of options here – use Microsoft’s WebHostService class, inherit WebHostService or write your own. The reason for the latter being that using Microsoft’s implementation, we cannot write a generic extension method with a type parameter inheriting WebHostService since this class does not contain a parameterless constructor nor can we access the … Read more
Here is my work-around… After way too many hours searching for an answer to this, I discovered a wide variety of articles and blogs discussing timers in Windows services. I’ve seen a lot of opinions on this and they all fall into three categories and in descending order of frequency: Don’t use System.Windows.Forms.Timer because it … Read more
I wrote a blog post on how to do this using P/Invoke. Using the ServiceHelper class from my post you can do the following to change the Start Mode. var svc = new ServiceController(“ServiceNameGoesHere”); ServiceHelper.ChangeStartMode(svc, ServiceStartMode.Automatic);
sc.exe config “Service Name” obj= “DOMAIN\User” password= “password” type= own See Shortcut Setting Log-On Credentials for Windows Services ยป jonathanmalek.com. @MattT points out that on Windows Server 2008R2 you have to add type= own, but prior to that version it isn’t necessary. In PowerShell 3+, you can avoid escaping the arguments with the stop-parsing symbol: … Read more