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I have developed my application in VB.NET. I want to run windows application as windows service. I am calling many dlls in my application and connecting application with Oracle etc.

Now please help me how to run Windows application as Windows Service and the application should be viewable to user when it is running...

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Posted 9-Jun-11 0:55am

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Updated 9-Jun-11 1:44am

Kim Togo

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2011-06-09T01:27:00

Solution 1

In Vista and Windows 7, it's not possible to run a WinForms app as a Windows service. You have to create an actual Windows Service application (which means any interface elements cannot be used).

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-Jun-11 12:05pm

Right, my 5.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 9-Jun-11 12:10pm

However, I'm not sure how about Windows 7. Please see my comment to Dave's answer -- I created a dual mode thing. Not sure, but I think it worked in Windows 7 in principle, because -- why not?
--SA

Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 2 · 2011-06-09T02:00:00

You can't do that. Windows Service applications should not show a user interface at all. You cannot run all Windows Applications as a service and expect them to work. Since they cannot show a user interface that the user can see, if the app is waiting for the user to do something, it'll never happen.

Rewrite your app properly for this type of environment. The Server app should do it's work autonomously and if you need the user to tell it what to do, write a second application that communicates with the service, such as through a named pipe or some other interprocess communication method, to tell it what to do.