How to create windows service to run winform application?

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Hi friends,
i wrote code for winform application in which i used timer to run form periodically but my timer runs on form or application level and i want to run this timer on system level.
i found that with the use of windows service i will achieve the same. so is that better way to go through this and if yes how to create and run application in windows service.

Posted 4-Apr-15 21:12pm

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Richard MacCutchan 5-Apr-15 3:27am

You cannot run a Window application as a service. Services have no UI component.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-04-05T06:42:00

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You cannot have the Windows service with UI. Here is the hint for you: if it was possible, how could this UI work without desktop? When you log off Windows, the service keeps working, but there is no a desktop.

If you need to work some UI on some schedule (also not a very good idea), you could have a service which starts your application at certain moments of times, and only when it is possible. But such service already exist, called Windows Task Scheduler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Task_Scheduler.

Please see my past answer: Problem a Window Services.

—SA

Posted 5-Apr-15 6:42am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Member 11543226 6-Apr-15 2:15am

But sir so how could i run form in background this form related to file import export kinda process for the device and i would have to run this application daily when system starts.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Apr-15 2:25am

First of all, make it clear to yourself: what is "running a form in background"?
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Apr-15 2:31am

This is a bit different thing. Please see my Solution 2 then.
—SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2015-04-05T20:30:00

Member 11543226 wrote

But sir so how could i run form in background this form related to file import export kinda process for the device and i would have to run this application daily when system starts.

Running some application "when system starts" is not exactly the same thing: a service (with auto-start option) is just one of the ways corresponding only to one of the system boot and startup phases. There is a number of different ways corresponding to different phases.

Please see my past answers on this topic:
How to start the application before user login to the System,
Automatically start my c# application when i start my computer,
Start Up Application.

—SA