Application.DoEvents in a service

[Peter B Rasmussen]

Please Help i am going mad :)

I am converting an application to a service using vb.net.

My problem is that i can't import the system.windows.forms.

What can i call instead?

In the code below ReturnValue is updated by a timer event.

Code:
Do

Application.DoEvents()

Loop Until (InStr(StrReturnValue, StrFindString) Or InStr(StrReturnValue,
"ERROR"))

Thanks in advance.

PBR

[Armin Zingler]

"Peter B Rasmussen" <pe***@zonecreator.com> schrieb

Please Help i am going mad :)

I am converting an application to a service using vb.net.

My problem is that i can't import the system.windows.forms.

What can i call instead?

In the code below ReturnValue is updated by a timer event.

Code:
Do

Application.DoEvents()

Loop Until (InStr(StrReturnValue, StrFindString) Or
InStr(StrReturnValue, "ERROR"))

The "technical" explanation for not being able to Import the mentioned
namespace may be that you don't reference a/the library containing the
namespace. Apart from that, a service doesn't/mustn't need a UI so there's
no need for system.windows.forms and doevents. You may write a service _and_
a WinForms app and have them communicate with each other.
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Armin

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[Peter B Rasmussen]

Thanks for the answer.

But i need a way to pause the process but still have the service application
running timers and stuff. Thats is my problem.

The program does not need an application frontend.

Thanks in advance

/Peter

[Michael Pearson]

You need multithreading!

Thread.Sleep() on the thread you want to pause

Multithreading is a pretty complicated thing. Do some reading on
multithreading and that should point you in the right direction.

Michael

"Peter B Rasmussen" <pe***@zonecreator.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for the answer.

But i need a way to pause the process but still have the service application running timers and stuff. Thats is my problem.

The program does not need an application frontend.

Thanks in advance

/Peter

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