Continual Process in a Windows Service

[Larry]

Hello
I see that Windows Services are suppose to be able to run in their own background process. I can create simple Services based on the MSDN walkthrough, and get the OnStart/OnStop methods to work fine. But these are only triggered if the user manually goes into Component Services Manager and Starts/Stops the process - i.e. they don't continually run in the background. (Clicking either process puts the server on hold until that method finishes)

Can anyone tell me how to have a Service do a continual process in the background, such as writing a file to the c:\temp directory every 5 seconds

Thanks
Larry

[Kevin Spencer]

Re: Continual Process in a Windows Service

Sure. Use a Timer. The timer is initialized in the OnStart method, and you
create an event handler for the elapsed event of the timer. The event
handler will run every time the interval elapses.

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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
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of lots of little things.

"Larry" <anonymous@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I see that Windows Services are suppose to be able to run in their own[/color]
background process. I can create simple Services based on the MSDN
walkthrough, and get the OnStart/OnStop methods to work fine. But these are
only triggered if the user manually goes into Component Services Manager and
Starts/Stops the process - i.e. they don't continually run in the
background. (Clicking either process puts the server on hold until that
method finishes).[color=blue]
>
> Can anyone tell me how to have a Service do a continual process in the[/color]
background, such as writing a file to the c:\temp directory every 5 seconds?[color=blue]
>
> Thanks,
> Larry[/color]

[bruce barker]

Re: Continual Process in a Windows Service

normally on onstart you start a background thread that implements the
service. when you detect onstop, you stop the thread. you can configure the
service to autostart on bootup.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)


"Larry" <anonymous@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
news:FBE91C29-A161-4955-8ADB-6D82FEFA328B@mi crosoft.com...[color=blue]
> Hello,
> I see that Windows Services are suppose to be able to run in their own[/color]
background process. I can create simple Services based on the MSDN
walkthrough, and get the OnStart/OnStop methods to work fine. But these are
only triggered if the user manually goes into Component Services Manager and
Starts/Stops the process - i.e. they don't continually run in the
background. (Clicking either process puts the server on hold until that
method finishes).[color=blue]
>
> Can anyone tell me how to have a Service do a continual process in the[/color]
background, such as writing a file to the c:\temp directory every 5 seconds?[color=blue]
>
> Thanks,
> Larry[/color]