windows service

[ayush patel]

Hi I have a service which has to be send an email every tuesday and friday. what i did is i created a timer control like this

Timer _timer = new Timer();
while initializing..............
_timer = new Timer(89000000);
in start event ...............
_timer.Start();

now i call a class in start function and this class takes todays date, checks if it is tuesday or friday and does what ever it has to do.

my problem is if today is tuesday and i start the servce it emails the file but when it is friday it has to do the same thing but it doesn't. i have to stop and start the service. Again on tuesday i have to start the service. in the same way. why doesn't it do this automatically.

i can see the service is running. it has to check date every 24 hours i dont know why it doesn't do that.

i doubt if my timer control works.

please help me if anybody has any idea.

Ayush

[DrBunchman]

Hi Ayush,

If you are certain that your service is running then the timer must be disabled in your code. When your Tick event is fired do you stop the timer at all?

Dr B

[ayush patel]

this is my code may be it will answer your question

ExportService1 : ServiceBase
    {
 
        Timer _timer = new Timer();
        ServiceController controller = new ServiceController();
 
        public ExportService1()
        {
            _timer = new Timer(89000000);
            InitializeComponent();
        }
 
        protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
        {
 
            _timer.Start();
            newfunction(null);
        }
        protected override void OnContinue()
        {
            _timer.Start();
        }
        protected override void OnStop()
        {
            _timer.Stop();
 
        }
        protected override void OnShutdown()
        {
 
            base.OnShutdown();
            _timer.Stop();
 
        }
        public void newfunction(object obj)
        {
 
            Form fr = new Form();
            fr.Export();
 
 
        }