Windows services cannot have GUIs, so you will need to either get rid of the GUI or separate your application into two pieces – a service with no UI, and a “controller” application. If you have the source code, converting the non-GUI code into a service is easy – Visual Studio has a ‘Windows Service’ … Read more
I think I may have found it. In the service itself, the automatically created ServiceProcessInstaller component has a property “Account” which can be set to “LocalService”, “LocalSystem”, “NetworkService” or “User”. It was defaulting to “User” which must have displayed the prompt.
The output will simply be discarded. In a Windows Service there is no Console so Console.Write* output is discarded. There are a number of alternatives: The System.Diagnostics.Trace class has a similar interface to the Console class so you could migrate your code quite easily to this. It can then be configured to output to a … Read more
To my second question I found a solution: Add a reference to System.Configuration to your code file. using System.Configuration; The setting may now be referenced correctly… ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[“UrlToPing”].ToString();
And I found my answer! My project properties were set to Windows App instead of Console App. DOH! (Project Properties > Application Tab > Output type:)
I was just having this issue and it was because I wasn’t running my visual studio command prompt as an administrator.
You haven’t properly encoded the ampersands in your URI. Remember that app.config is an XML file, so you must conform to XML’s requirements for escaping (e.g. & should be &, < should be < and > should be >). In your case, it should look like this: <appSettings> <add key=”fooUriString” value=”https://foo.bar.baz/download/DownloadStream?id=5486cfb8c50c9f9a2c1bc43daf7ddeed&login=null&password=null” /> </appSettings> But in … Read more
A “might be enough” version of this is built into Windows. Look into the “Recovery” tab of the service properties, as available via services.msc. You can act on a service fail with: “Restart the Service” “Run a Progam” “Restart the Computer” “Run a program” could be a small script that sends a mail, for example. … Read more
I used this article: How to create a Setup project for a Windows Service in Visual Basic .NET or in Visual Basic 2005 Felt pretty dumb that I couldn’t figure it all out until I went through all of the steps in this article. It’s not a trivial exercise by any means.
Mapped network drives are user specific, so if the app is running under a different identity than the user that created the mapped drive letter (z:) it won’t work.