Windows Service Question

[Jerry Camel]

I'm posting this here because it seems to be a much more active group that
the standard VB group and I suspect that ASP developers may be more inclined
to write a service, anyway.

I've got my service all nice and compiled and it runs just great. Question
is, how do I populate the description field in the Control Panel Services
applet? Is it a registry hack or should I be able to set this within the
service project in VS? Thanks.

Jerry

[Tim Stall]

I think you could use attributes in the AssemblyInfo.vb file, like so

<Assembly: AssemblyDescription("My Description Here")>

HTH
Tim Stal

----- Jerry Camel wrote: ----

I'm posting this here because it seems to be a much more active group tha
the standard VB group and I suspect that ASP developers may be more incline
to write a service, anyway

I've got my service all nice and compiled and it runs just great. Questio
is, how do I populate the description field in the Control Panel Service
applet? Is it a registry hack or should I be able to set this within th
service project in VS? Thanks

Jerr

[Jerry Camel]

I'll give that a shot. Meanwhile, can you tell me how I stop my service
from within the service itself?

Jerry
"Tim Stall" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9A**********************************@microsof t.com...

I think you could use attributes in the AssemblyInfo.vb file, like so:

<Assembly: AssemblyDescription("My Description Here")>

HTH,
Tim Stall

----- Jerry Camel wrote: -----

I'm posting this here because it seems to be a much more active group that the standard VB group and I suspect that ASP developers may be more inclined to write a service, anyway.

I've got my service all nice and compiled and it runs just great. Question is, how do I populate the description field in the Control Panel Services applet? Is it a registry hack or should I be able to set this within the service project in VS? Thanks.

Jerry

[Tim Stall]

Hey Jerry
So it sounds like you want the service to run for X seconds, and then stop itself (given that services have no UI)

Have the service start method kick off a timer (you can drag this from the "Toolbox>Components>Timer". In the timer method, increment a counter. Once the counter reaches a certain value, then have it call the stop method

Tim Stal
----- Jerry Camel wrote: ----

I'll give that a shot. Meanwhile, can you tell me how I stop my servic
from within the service itself

Jerr
"Tim Stall" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in messag
news:9A**********************************@microsof t.com..

I think you could use attributes in the AssemblyInfo.vb file, like so

<Assembly: AssemblyDescription("My Description Here")>>> HTH Tim Stal

----- Jerry Camel wrote: ----
I'm posting this here because it seems to be a much more active grou

tha the standard VB group and I suspect that ASP developers may be mor incline to write a service, anyway

I've got my service all nice and compiled and it runs just great

Questio is, how do I populate the description field in the Control Pane Service applet? Is it a registry hack or should I be able to set this withi th service project in VS? Thanks

Jerr

[Jerry Camel]

This is the problem... Where is the Stop method? I can't find an object
with a stop method. Unless I create a ServiceController object, but I tried
that and it didn't seem to work. Please point me to the correct object. I
really must be missing something here, I can't imagine this is really that
hard to do! Thanks.

Jerry

"Tim Stall" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:04**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hey Jerry,
So it sounds like you want the service to run for X seconds, and then stop itself (given that services have no UI)?
Have the service start method kick off a timer (you can drag this from the "Toolbox>Components>Timer". In the timer method, increment a counter. Once
the counter reaches a certain value, then have it call the stop method.
Tim Stall
----- Jerry Camel wrote: -----

I'll give that a shot. Meanwhile, can you tell me how I stop my service from within the service itself?

Jerry
"Tim Stall" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9A**********************************@microsof t.com...

> I think you could use attributes in the AssemblyInfo.vb file, like so:

>><Assembly: AssemblyDescription("My Description Here")>>> HTH, > Tim Stall

>> ----- Jerry Camel wrote: -----
>> I'm posting this here because it seems to be a much more

active group that

> the standard VB group and I suspect that ASP developers may be

more inclined

> to write a service, anyway.

>> I've got my service all nice and compiled and it runs just

great. Question

> is, how do I populate the description field in the Control

Panel Services

> applet? Is it a registry hack or should I be able to set this

within the

> service project in VS? Thanks.

>> Jerry
>>>