Creating a Windows service

[McBainUK]

I'd like to investigate creating a Windows service that can communicate (both ways) with a NPVR plugin.

Anyone got any hints and/or sample code?

[markbb1]

I'd like to investigate creating a Windows service that can communicate with a NPVR plugin.

Anyone got any hints and/or sample code?

I once used srvany.exe to run a program as a service in Windows XP. Could you just write your program that communicates with NPVR and then run it as a service?

[McBainUK]

I'm more interested in service/plugin inter-process communications.

[bgowland]

I'm more interested in service / plugin inter-process communications.

PM me your email address and I'll send you some template files.

[McBainUK]

PM me your email address and I'll send you some template files.

PM sent.

[sub]

I use .NET Remoting, which is pretty straight forward. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/...s.71).aspx

[bgowland]

PM sent.

You have mail.

[pBS]

built-in sc.exe can run any progrm as a service, but you need to adhere to certain constraints as to what kind of functions you need to have to make it a real service..

Code:

sc create MYPROG binpath= "c:\Program Files\MYDIR\MYPROG.exe" type= own type= interact
net start MYPROG

or a nice program called Launcher Service, http://emutastic.emulation64.com/netosoft
but i haven't tried it in vista/7 yet..
sc works everywhere back to 2000 i believe..

[mvallevand]

I'm more interested in service/plugin inter-process communications.

If you need an example using standard sockets for IPC let me know.

Martin