Thank you so much! I'm creating a windows service that preforms a function every 8 hours. The problem is it doesn't trigger the function on starting the service. Instead, it works once the 8 hours is passed! I want it to get the function started on starting the service and then wait for the 8 hours to perform it for the second time. I followed the same code in the video with a different functionality.
Hi! That sounds cool, it should be simple to modify your time base trigger code to run once on initialization and then every 8 hours after that! In this example I write the time the service was started to the log, you could execute the service once then as well!
Thanks so much for the super nice comment!! I like developing in C# but this is the only C based video I’ve ever made that actually did well, whereas my Python and arduino ones often do quite well so it’s quite a balancing act of picking which content to make 😂😁
Wow, that was easy! I decided to use batch files for the install and uninstall commands. Now, I'd like my service to start automatically when I log into windows. Thanks for the quick tutorial!
@@lemastertech I am using a f drive of my PC in the windows service but it gives an error that the access is denied how can I resolve this error thank you please provide a solution as early as possible
Thanks for this video! I was struggling to create a dummy windows service for one of my test cases, I had not touched windows over last 10 years. This came in super handy! ❤
Awesome video man, just subscribed to the channel! If possible, I'd like to see more C# coding on a practical use case in an enterprise like environment. Something basic like an FTP or file drop that executes a notification or something basic of the sort would be great material. Looking forward to more content!
Thanks for watching subbing and commenting!! I would like to do something like that since I do stuff like that for work fairly often! I just need to make sure nothing I make uses any work assets so I’d need to set everything up from scratch on my personal computer!
Really nice tips in the video. Also I would like to see a tutorial of how to do whatever I want with Fn keys for example to open google or to turn off a touchpad if I'm in a laptop.
Hey bro! Great video helped me a lot - keep it up! I'm working on a C# service that runs continuously and monitors the MobaXterm application. I’ve managed to trigger an executable script every time MobaXterm starts, but I'm struggling to trigger the script once when the workstation is unlocked, and MobaXterm is already running. Do you have any suggestions on how I could solve this?
Hi I wish I could help you but I have not done any interfacing with MobaXTerm! And unless you can trigger outbound statuses with it, any sort of listening service would really just be listening for start up/ shut down not really statuses within a service
Thanks for this. Have you made any video that take a Services project and also add a taskbar (right click) icon to go and change things like stop,start,settings?
Hi LeMaster Tech, thank you very much for posting this. Im not actually a programmer but system administrator and from the side of servers admining i want to say that many admins require to run powershell scripts as exe file and run it as a service. Im sure that many of us and especially me would say thank you if you could make some tutorial of how to include powershell script(more than 100 lines) into C# code and run it is as a service. Many thanks one again.
Thanks for the video! super clear and helpful. However, I am taking over a windows service written by other people and I got the C# files by decompiling it using dot peek. When I then export it into a visual studio project, there is no "designer files" associated with the C# files, nor the installer. Also, when I tried to add the installer, some namespace are not useable, for example, it shows that System.ServiceProcess does not exist in the namespace. What am I supposed to do in this case?
Thank you for this channel. I am trying to transfer data from textfile to remote database by useing service. Do you have any sample code? somthing basic to see how it should be work. It would be great to know more about this.
Hi so you’re trying to parse data out of a text file into some standard formatted data and store in something like a SQL database? That’s a cool project idea but I do not have any sample code I’m sorry!
Great video. Im currently building my own DIY Mouse and i need to create some kind of program, that keeps a serial port open in the background. This way the code on the Arduino mouse knows when the PC is on (serial port is open) or off (serial port is closed). As i've never done such in depth windows stuff im stuggeling to open the serial port. The debug output of my Windows service says its running and opening the serial port fine, and once the service is running i can't open the port in arduino IDE anymore (suggesting its acually open) but for some reason my Arduino doesn't register, that its open. The arduino code works well at detecting when i open the Arduino IDE's serial monitor but it doesn't work with the windows service...
That’s super interesting but I honestly can’t say I’ve done anything with a windows service communicating with an arduino I always use python when I want pc to arduino interfacing!
Is it possible to transform a console application into a service? I have this one console application that has Quartz for time scheduling, but I am not sure if there is a way to grab my application, keep it doing all the scheduled tasks it does and just turn it into a Windows service!
Hello sir, thanks for the video. i am developing a kiosk application for windows. The application must be always in the foreground & fullscreen. I want to check the application is in fullscreen & in the foreground using a windows service. I also want to check the current virtual desktop. If the current virtual desktop is not the one that opened the kiosk apllication, the service will kill the original application and starts a new instance on that virtual desktop. Is this something that can be achieved via a windows service?
Dear, Didnt find Windows Service Applicaiton while creating new application. Please let me know how to add it if not available in the Visual Studio, I am using Visual Studio 2022.
Thank you for the tutorial, it was simple and easy to grasp. I have a specific doubt to clarify, can we do the same in .net 6, if so could you provide the steps and details of it
Hi, I believe the same steps apply but I’ll be honest I haven’t specifically tried this for that application so I don’t want to say anything wrong here!
@@lemastertech Hi, thank you, I tried the same , but I was not able to find Wndows Service project that uses .net core when I am trying to create a new project in visual studio 2022
Thank you for the tutorial. I have a Desktop application and a Windows Service. I want both of them in an installable (.msi). Can you make a tutorial about this?
Hey that’s an interesting one because msi installers follow a lot of the same steps but are a bit more complicated! That would make a pretty good tutorial so I will add it to my future vids to do list!! Thanks for the suggestion!
Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial. Thats what I was searching. can you please guide me may be with the same service code, that how can I communicate the data/message (bidirectional) between the 2 libraries(Dlls) which are loaded within the same service. Thank you once again.
Hey you are very welcome and I’m glad you found it useful! I don’t think I’ll have the time required to do a detailed tutorial or help much on setting up this sort of communicate though I am sorry!
Hello, I want to use the Windows service to move files from a network shared drive to the local folder on the machine. When I run the code without the service it works properly. But when I execute the same code inside the service it cannot execute it. So can you please advice how to use the shared network location inside the Windows Service. Thanks! Your video is very helpful
Hi I am not sure how to do that but it seems like maybe the network or shared drive could be blocking a service because it doesn’t have proper permissions where as when you run it once directly it uses your credentials by default? Not sure though!
@@lemastertech that's correct it's the samba shared drive to which I want to connect to. But not sure how to do the connects using username and password
Great video, but then there is deploying the service where you don't have VS. I would imagine it's just using the SC command or the powershell add service command which would be a great add to this video
Hi thanks for the comment! I think you're correct you could deploy automatically but I do think most people who could figure out how to follow this tutorial could add the service to powershell themselves most likely but I think you're right it could have been good to tack on here too!
Thanks for the video... Can I ask whether I can use windows form in the service or not.... I want to develop a windows service to load data from a csv file into SQL server.... So, I just create a windows form application to brows and read csv file, and then import into SQL server, inside the windows service project.... Installation did work but, when I start my service it gives me an error saying, 'An exception occurred in the service when handling the control request.'.... Can you give me an advice on what I can do? Thank you and much appreciated.
Hi it doesn’t sound like it should be a windows service if you want manual intervention checking for a file! Usually a parser or data transfer utility would automatically listen for new data without operator intervention. Just make a regular script and windows form project!
Hi, enjoyed your tutorial. I would like to start this service from another application that I write. Can you show how? The next step is to create a service with parameters. Thanks a lot
Hello I can add this to my projects list for upcoming videos but it might be a while - you can start and stop a service using command line commands anytime so you could write a program or application to execute those commands. It would be a tough video to make but I can start working towards it - should be some good examples on stack overflow too though!
Thank you for responding and I apologize for being so late. I would also like to see how to create a web service that uses https, produces a link that can be used by external programs to access it or pass some data. I see a lot about the web service being created to be used by app on same server as the web service but very little about calling the web service from an external outside server.
Can a windows service be used to upload and download data to Google BigQuery or Google Drive? We need to pull via ODBC invoices from a sage 50 system and push in payment receipts so we're thinking of a windows service for this? Do you do contract work?
Hi, yes it’s possible although often there are better methods for file transfer or data transfer protocols than a windows listener service! But I’ve never heard of a sage 50 system - I do not do contract work right now I have a full time day job!
This tutorial is awesome. It lacks the next step... How it communicates with a gui application or another service. It is interesting to have a background windows service... But how do you control it in a nice gui way?
Hi - if you want a GUI for control you probably don’t actually want a windows service - the point of this project is how to create a service that runs in the background, which is what windows services are - if you want a GUI that would be an application instead of
@@lemastertech Thanks for your fast feedback. Let's suppose that you want to change the behaviour of the windows service, instead of logging every 5 sec you want to log every 10 sec, how would you do it?
I need a windowservice which take all the tiff files in specific directory and merge all the images into one tiff file and store in some specified location and it should generate XML where it should provide information regarding the images sz breadth and length
Can we create service to check the machine connected to specific wifi if not it has to provide a popup to user. Kind of notification to remind them to do checkin and checkout in specific app. When he does tat it should store to env variables, if the person don do that then service need to send notification again in regular intervals untill user does it
Hello, yes you can certainly, that’s how a lot of VPN services work. There’s a lot of specifics I don’t think I could cover in a RU-vid comment response but I’d suggest looking up similar examples from stack overflow! Goodluck that sounds like a cool project!
Hi window service is created but not able to start the service this throwing error that can not start on Local computer with error code1053 showing the service did not respond on start and stop. i am stuck here for last 2 days please give me solution
This video was wonderful. But I'm using .Net 6 and this example seems incompatible. I also want to use data injection to fill out the full extent of my background tasks. Any idea if this is possible?
Hi I’m sorry I don’t think there’s any explicit invalid syntactical things between this example and .net6 what errors is is giving you?? And I think your target application is definitely feasible but for data injection you’d be parsing a Csv file or extracting from a sql table or some other data injection?
@@lemastertech just a setup.exe/.msi to install/uninstall it automatically, without having to push the user to type InstallUtil command himself. I've finally figured it out by looking at many videos so it would be a nice addition for your subscribers. (Using Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Project extension, all the process of "installing" the app itself, then "installing the service" itself by adding Custom Actions at the Install, and Uninstall time)
i want to create 2 application the first one, on server side windows service app can host sql database connection, and the second app from domain side when app load search for server windows service on the network and connect with the database using services. can you help please.
Hi - this is a common application for a listener partner service. There are some pretty good examples online of how to set up a folder or destination listener and parse it into a sql table entry! Check out some stack overflow examples!!
Hi - in this example I use a time difference to trigger the event, you could replace that with a specific clock time, so rather than every ten seconds you could either make that every 24 hours, and just make sure to start it when you want it to start, or you could check against the computer clock for a trigger! Goodluck!
i installed a window service in a PC it stop automatically , how can i overcome this its Startup type is Automatic but when i restart my PC it donot start automatically
You might have a dedicated “start” Folder where you can add executables and services to startup when the computer starts up you could add it there as well!
Please can you make a video of how to code a service to restart. Display screens or to restart website servers when they not displaying correct information or not picking up from the right file
Hi, sorry I really am not certain what you mean, like a refresh button but instead of clicking a refresh button in your url it would automatically refresh?
I'm not familiar with the Windows installer he used, I'm using WiX Installer v5 and it's pretty easy to add a to define the settings on the "Recovery" tab of the service. You'll need the Heatwave extension (I'm using VS 2022), and make sure to add the WixToolset.Util.wixext Nuget package and use that instead of the stock WiX , it's buggy.
Hi do you mean like the code automatically installs it as a service and then gets it running just by executing the program? It is possible but almost every computer would likely flag a program like that as malware unless given proper security permissions!
@@lemastertech Yes running just by executing a program, because it's still more convenient to give permission than going to services. Is that possible ?
Hi - once something is running as a windows service there really isn’t a difference! The differences are mainly just in what way you develop the service - I believe a dotnet worker service just uses a slightly different template for setting it up!
Thank you for the GOLD! Is it possible to publish the project into a folder and create a windows service with a reference to the executable file in that folder? I want to use and run the service on a different computer.
Hi! You are welcome, and yes it should be possible but mostly you’d follow these same steps on whatever computer you are publishing it on - if you mean like putting the service on a shared network folder or drive and creating the service from there I assume that is doable but I have not done that personally myself!
@@lemastertech Thanks for the response! Does windows stop the service once it goes to sleep or hibernate mode? It was working like a charm! before I close the lid of my laptop. I checked the log file to see if it works fine when I woke up this morning. I didn't see any "stopped service" log into the txt file, but a new successful log in message neither. I used your tutorial to create a windows service that loges into my stack account every once in a while through Selenium. It adds a new line to the log file when successfully logged in. Would you help me with this? It's not stopped obviously.
An update to my previous comment; It added a new "successfully logged in" log message to the log file after working with my laptop for less than an hour! As I told you it wasn't stopped. Is there any way to keep the service running even in sleep or hibernate mode? Do I need to add a piece of code to the existing script?
I had the same problem! I need it to keep running even if I close lid of laptop. I tried to make it happen by overriding OnPowerEvent() but it was not triggered!@@lemastertech
Hello. i want to create windows service for the api data take data from 2 different application API and save it to the Temp database and this service is call after each 1h its related to product order Requirement: Creating a Windows service, in C# which is connected to a TMP database, where Orders (from external apps), Products (from GAMMA) are shared. The app is able to periodically communicate with App4Sales and Prestashop APIs to: Export Product descriptions and product availability Collect Orders generated by above platform
I want to see windows service thats act as an auto updater, example soon as possible when trigger that some attached process is started in its directory to extract the data.
@@lemastertech Something like, game updater, Service gonna be installed in appdata, when windows startup, gonna check for version of zipped data, and gonna monitoring for specific process when detect. Example when process hl.exe is started then gonna extract the zipped data in directory where hl.exe is located
Hello, Thank you for the great Job. Let me do a remark : you should create an specific object for the log to show only what is the code of the service and what is the code of the logger. And no need to use File.Create when the file doesn't exist because File.AppendText works even if the File was just created. And prefer using the methods Start and Stop() So here is my code of the logger : public enum LogType { Debug, Info, Warning, Error } public static class Logger { public static void WriteLog(string logpath, LogType ltype, string text) { if(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(logpath)) { if (!File.Exists(logpath)) { File.Create(logpath); } using (StreamWriter sw = File.AppendText(logpath)) { sw.WriteLine(FormatLog(ltype, text)); } } } private static string FormatLog(LogType ltype, string text) { string s = string.Format("{0} - {1} : {2}", DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss.fff"), ltype.ToString(), text); return s; } } You can use it as you want So with the logger the code of the service become : public partial class TestService : ServiceBase { private string _logpath; private Timer _watchdog; public TestService() { _logpath = Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, "Logs"); _watchdog = new Timer(); _watchdog.Elapsed += _watchdog_Elapsed; _watchdog.Interval = 1000; InitializeComponent(); } private void _watchdog_Elapsed(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e) { Logger.WriteLog(_logpath, LogType.Info, "Service running"); } protected override void OnStart(string[] args) { _watchdog.Start(); Logger.WriteLog(_logpath, LogType.Info, "Service Start"); } protected override void OnStop() { Logger.WriteLog(_logpath, LogType.Info, "Service Stop"); _watchdog.Sopt(); } Enjoy.
Sorry I made a little mistake in the logger class in the WriteLog Method : the File.AppendAllText takes in charge the opening ang closing file before and after writing text into it. So, here is the final version public static class Logger { public static void WriteLog(string logpath, LogType ltype, string text) { if(!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(logpath)) { File.AppendAllText(logpath, FormatLog(ltype, text)); } } private static string FormatLog(LogType ltype, string text) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); sb.AppendLine(string.Format("{0} - {1} : {2}", DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss.fff"), ltype.ToString(), text)); return sb.ToString(); } } Hope you'll enjoy.
Hi, so there are a ton of packages you can choose to include or not include when you install Visual Studio so you may need to check your included packages and if you don’t have .net framework add that! It probably will require some extra storage!
Hello - I’m sorry I don’t understand exactly what your issue is?? You’re saying the project template file I start the tutorial by using isn’t available for you?
@@lemastertech theres is another problem , when i am installing my service with installutill,exe it gives me this error: Running a transacted installation. Beginning the Install phase of the installation. See the contents of the log file for the C:\Users\BIRJU\source epos\FSW_Serive\FSW_Serive\bin\Debug\FSW_Serive.exe assembly's progress. The file is located at C:\Users\BIRJU\source epos\FSW_Serive\FSW_Serive\bin\Debug\FSW_Serive.InstallLog. Installing assembly 'C:\Users\BIRJU\source epos\FSW_Serive\FSW_Serive\bin\Debug\FSW_Serive.exe'. Affected parameters are: logtoconsole = logfile = C:\Users\BIRJU\source epos\FSW_Serive\FSW_Serive\bin\Debug\FSW_Serive.InstallLog assemblypath = C:\Users\BIRJU\source epos\FSW_Serive\FSW_Serive\bin\Debug\FSW_Serive.exe An exception occurred during the Install phase. System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: No mapping between account names and security IDs was done The Rollback phase of the installation is beginning. See the contents of the log file for the C:\Users\BIRJU\source epos\FSW_Serive\FSW_Serive\bin\Debug\FSW_Serive.exe assembly's progress. The file is located at C:\Users\BIRJU\source epos\FSW_Serive\FSW_Serive\bin\Debug\FSW_Serive.InstallLog. Rolling back assembly 'C:\Users\BIRJU\source epos\FSW_Serive\FSW_Serive\bin\Debug\FSW_Serive.exe'. Affected parameters are: logtoconsole = logfile = C:\Users\BIRJU\source epos\FSW_Serive\FSW_Serive\bin\Debug\FSW_Serive.InstallLog assemblypath = C:\Users\BIRJU\source epos\FSW_Serive\FSW_Serive\bin\Debug\FSW_Serive.exe The Rollback phase completed successfully. The transacted install has completed. The installation failed, and the rollback has been performed.
Yeah I want to try to keep a variety in the channel so I don’t get stuck in a rut, and I had to develop some services for work in C# last week so figured it’d make a good tutorial! 😁
I found a decent page with a lot of folks having that issue you might want to check out!! stackoverflow.com/questions/53365517/could-not-start-windows-service-error-1064
