{"id":3051,"date":"2004-08-08T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-07T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/programming-windows-services\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T13:13:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T02:13:22","slug":"programming-windows-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/3051","title":{"rendered":"Programming Windows Services"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I almost made a post with a big mistake. I was thinking about the X-Copy deply in VB.NET and realised that it did not work for Services. I know it does not – but not in that way. With ASP.NET you can overwrite the old copy of an exe even whilst it is running since ASP.NET takes a copy and places it in RAM or something until it is not needed. <\/p>\n

But with services they are kept on the disk. And they are locked. So you need to uninstall an old version before adding a new version.<\/p>\n

One of the other things that I want to do is to run a program either as a service or with a GUI depending on how the program started. After a lot of searching I found an article on the DotNet 247 Site<\/a>. Now this is a site I normally hate because they look like one of those horrible search engines that contaminate Google and never have the keywords when you go to the page. But this time I eventually found what I was looking for. <\/p>\n

One of the replies states
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If the parameter is set, start as a service, if the parameter is not given,
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start as a normal executable. Basically in your Sub Main, if the parameter
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is given do the ServiceBase.Run else do Application.Run.<\/p>\n

Looks good, but being able to automatically determine it would be better. I am starting to ‘GET’ services. Now that is worrying.<\/p>\n

Music: Nothing. It is 8:24AM on a sunday morning… Argh<\/h2>\n

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Last night I almost made a post with a big mistake. I was thinking about the X-Copy deply in VB.NET and realised that it did not work for Services. I know it does not – but not in that way. …<\/p>\n

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