NT Service authored in Visual Basic
Printers or network connections? First time I've heard that... maybe I
should tell my VB app / service that; since it worked fine for several years
printing automated production reports of data acquired from networked PLCs.
;-)
Works fine an my end. Perhaps you're service is trying to interact with the
desktop (?).
Chris Ross
Quote:
> NTSVC.OCX is my favorite.
> It allows you to really control your application and respond to
> Service_Start,Stop, Pause and Continue.
> Keep in mind that you don't have access to printers or network connections
> if you run a program as a service.
> Good luck
> > greetings,
> > I am trying to build an application in vb which will run as a service on
> > NT4. I have located several means by which to do this (namely, the
SRVANY
> > and NTSVC.OCX). Has anyone worked with these components before and if
so,
> > which is recommended?
> > The nature of my service is sort of a like the NT Scheduler service. It
> will
> > obtain a list of key times and then wait for those times to occur, at
> which
> > point it invokes an activex application and executes a task (could i be
> any
> > more vague?). Anyhow, any pointers would be appreciated.
> > TIA
> > Dave
