Read ini file for Windows Service

[k1Ll5w1tcH]

Howzit

I've written a windows service app, which needs to read an ini file. When I read the file I get no result, no errors and only "". When I run it in a windows forms app, it works fine.
Is there something I'm missing??

Please help me out guys!

P.S. The file is on the local disk and the SYSTEM account has full control of the file.

 

[NESWalt]

It sounds like a permission problem.

I don't know the code fragment you are using, but if there's an error, have you tried logging the error to a log file or the event viewer? I've written many a Windows Service and I always make sure I keep good logs since you can't quite debug as well.

 

[kurie]

go and write debugger.Laucher() on start
to debug your service application.
seems like permission issue to me.

 

[craigber]

The ini file for a service must be in the Windows folder.

Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual FoxPro MVP,

http://www.craigberntson.com/blog

 

[fletchsod]

I didn't have this problem. So, it should work in your case.

You might want to check the file path if that's the case. Usually, when debugging, I had it spit out to the log file so I can see what's going on behind the scene since I'm not able to do the debugger.

 

[craigber]

You can use the debugger on a service. You just have to trigger it in code.

Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual FoxPro MVP,

http://www.craigberntson.com/blog