windows Service vb.net

[sarabonn]

Hallo Everyone,

I have created a windows service which reads the .xml data and send email once a day automatically using vb.net. works fine. Now i would like to send configure my windows service by manual changing the email id (for example get a email id from the text box in the properties or just a right click menu). Is it possible to do so ?..

Thank you..

[sashi]

Hi there,

A better idea would be to store the email addresses in an XML file. Write a simple procedure to read the contents of an XML file, kindly refer to below code segment;

Assuming this is your XML file

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?> 
- <Table>
- <Product>
  <Product_id>1</Product_id> 
  <Product_name>Product 1</Product_name> 
  <Product_price>1000</Product_price> 
  </Product>
- <Product>
  <Product_id>2</Product_id> 
  <Product_name>Product 2</Product_name> 
  <Product_price>2000</Product_price> 
  </Product>
- <Product>
  <Product_id>3</Product_id> 
  <Product_name>Product 3</Product_name> 
  <Product_price>3000</Product_price> 
  </Product>
- <Product>
  <Product_id>4</Product_id> 
  <Product_name>Product 4</Product_name> 
  <Product_price>4000</Product_price> 
  </Product>
  </Table>

Code to read xml nodes

Imports System.Xml
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim xmldoc As New XmlDataDocument()
        Dim xmlnode As XmlNodeList
        Dim i As Integer
        Dim str As String
        Dim fs As New FileStream("products.xml", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)
        xmldoc.Load(fs)
        xmlnode = xmldoc.GetElementsByTagName("Product")
        For i = 0 To xmlnode.Count - 1
            xmlnode(i).ChildNodes.Item(0).InnerText.Trim()
            str = xmlnode(i).ChildNodes.Item(0).InnerText.Trim() & " | " & xmlnode(i).ChildNodes.Item(1).InnerText.Trim() & " | " & xmlnode(i).ChildNodes.Item(2).InnerText.Trim()
            MsgBox(str)
        Next
    End Sub
End Class

Kindly refer to below attached link for more details, hope it helps :)

Basic XML Serialization in VB.NET

[tlhintoq]

Now i would like to send configure my windows service by manual changing the email id (for example get a email id from the text box in the properties or just a right click menu). Is it possible to do so ?..

To answer your original question, yes it is possible. You just use the .Text property of the textbox.

I would suggest that you *need* a configuration screen for your application. How else would the end user configure it for their use?

Combine these two answers so that you have a configuration screen, that then saves the users response. Then when launching your application it loads the saved config file.

[sarabonn]

Hallo tlhintoq,

Thank you for your reply. Actually i have a configuration file in which the email is stored and when the service run it reads the .xml file and send the data to the same email id everytime. Now what i need to do is suppose if the user need to run the windows service and send the xml data to someother email id ?.. That's why i thought some textbox when the service is right clicked and and the value of the textbox i can change the config file value and send to that email id. any idea ?..

Thank you..

[tlhintoq]

That's why i thought some textbox when the service is right clicked and and the value of the textbox i can change the config file value and send to that email id.

It sounds like you have thought out how you want it to work.

any idea ?..

So I don't understand what you are asking for.