I can't seem to get this windows service to work properly, I get a
message about some services stopping automatically if they have no work
to do, I suspect it may be with the way I start the timer in the
OnStart method, any help is greatly appreciated.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.ServiceProcess;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Timers;
namespace XpedX10
{
public partial class Service1 : ServiceBase
{
[DllImport("winmm.dll")]
private static extern bool PlaySound(string lpszName, int
hModule, int dwFlags);
X10Unified.Senders.Firecracker f;
Service.gLink serv = new Service.gLink();
String some;
Timer time = new Timer();
int orders = 0;
int oldorders = 0;
public Service1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
time.Interval = 30000;
time.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(time_Elapsed);
time.Enabled = true;
time.Start();
f =
X10Unified.Senders.Firecracker.GetInstance(Int32.P arse(System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.Ap pSettings["COM_Port"]));
}
void time_Elapsed(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
try
{
orders = serv.newXpedx();
if (orders 0 && oldorders == 0)
{
f.SendCommand('G', 1,
X10Unified.Senders.Firecracker.Commands.TurnOn);
PlaySound("c:\\windows\\media\\tada.wav", 0, 1);
}
if (orders == 0 && oldorders != 0)
{
f.SendCommand('G', 1,
X10Unified.Senders.Firecracker.Commands.TurnOff);
}
oldorders = orders;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
}
}
protected override void OnStop()
{
// TODO: Add code here to perform any tear-down necessary
to stop your service.
}
}
}
