Can I show UI from Service?
I have a project, which perfectly works in Windows XP.
However, in windows vista and up, it doesn't work sometimes
because of UAC, I guess.
So, as my thought, I need to run my project as a service to work properly.
Actually, i just registered it as a service, and ran it,
but I got a message like "you can't open a GUI program running.."
I need other ways to solve it.
any ideas??
Thanks.
However, in windows vista and up, it doesn't work sometimes
because of UAC, I guess.
So, as my thought, I need to run my project as a service to work properly.
Actually, i just registered it as a service, and ran it,
but I got a message like "you can't open a GUI program running.."
I need other ways to solve it.
any ideas??
Thanks.
I think you can open a GUI program via a windows service if the service is set to interactive mode.
I would just also like to undestand: was the project you had originally a gui application or was it a non iteractive console based app that only interacted with user by calling to other gui apps?
Ideally windows services are not meant for gui interaction - you create client applications with gui interfaces that interact with the widows service via sockets, named pipes, database or some other communication mechism.
A windows service typically servers many clients, hence clients are typically remote - however, if you have some weird case where you will require the client and service to run on same machine (like in a production environment) then you could also use shared memory between the service and client with which to communicate.
I would just also like to undestand: was the project you had originally a gui application or was it a non iteractive console based app that only interacted with user by calling to other gui apps?
Ideally windows services are not meant for gui interaction - you create client applications with gui interfaces that interact with the widows service via sockets, named pipes, database or some other communication mechism.
A windows service typically servers many clients, hence clients are typically remote - however, if you have some weird case where you will require the client and service to run on same machine (like in a production environment) then you could also use shared memory between the service and client with which to communicate.
Hi it seems your question are Windows specific. You may getter response in the Windows Programming forum instead.
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