Determine if app is running as GUI or Service

[boflexson]

I need some method to determine if the code that is executing in a GUI app or as a Windows Service.

I have some code in a dll that will either present a message box (in gui mode) to the user, or write to the event log (in windows service mode). How can I tell which mode the code is executing in?

-Adam T. Courtney

 

[Durkin]

Maybe you could have a parameter that the calling code could set to say which it was.

Durkin

 

[intrex]

You could also find your service in the scm and click on properties. Go to the local tab, then check allow service to interact with desktop. Once this is done your service can throw a msgbox just as a regular application. If you want to do this on install, there is a registry key you can set.

 

[boflexson]

I found this:

Environment.UserInteraction



-Adam T. Courtney