Recent content by georgedumaine

That's what I've found out, you are absolutely right. If I do any processing at all in the OnStart routine the service manager times it out and fires the OnStop routine almost before I can blink. The timer method I described seems to be working best but I'm getting erratic results with the...

What do you think about the structure of the service in general? Ie: Is it OK to have a timer that doesn't really do anything but hang out and have all the real work being done in the call back function? I just don't have much experience with delegates and callbacks in a service (console)...

I am having a problem processing callback message in a windows service app. Bascially the program reads a text file with a list of video file names and plays them back via a dll that returns 2 messages I'm interested in. Here's what's going on and the relevant code: If I put the line "Call...

Thanks. I want it to run as a service and I'm still playing with it. I declared the callback in the timer instead of the startup routine. I'm getting messases back but I'm still having some problems. I'll let you know what I find.

I have an application that uses functions in an external dll. This dll sends messages back via a callback delegate and I process the messages when they come it. On load of the main form I initialize variables and register call back. Then I call a function in the dll that plays a video file...