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Here's a sample:
Rules for writing services:
1. They must not have any interaction with the user or the desktop (ie. no popup windows, or for that matter, visual UI at all). If you need to communicate with the user, then a service is not what you should be writing.
2. In the OnStart event, start a new thread to do your real work. The OnStart event runs under the Service Control Manager, and if you take too long, it will mark your service as being non-responsive. So, doing things like doing a blocking read on a socket, or large DB query, is a bad idea.
Chip H.
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If you want to get the best response to a question, please read FAQ222-2244 first
Rules for writing services:
1. They must not have any interaction with the user or the desktop (ie. no popup windows, or for that matter, visual UI at all). If you need to communicate with the user, then a service is not what you should be writing.
2. In the OnStart event, start a new thread to do your real work. The OnStart event runs under the Service Control Manager, and if you take too long, it will mark your service as being non-responsive. So, doing things like doing a blocking read on a socket, or large DB query, is a bad idea.
Chip H.
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If you want to get the best response to a question, please read FAQ222-2244 first
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