I've created a simple application that I wish to be a process and not show up as an application inside taskmanager, simply because it is not an application. It was intended to be a process.
You might want to read about Windows Services.
Walkthrough: Creating a Windows Service Application in the Component Designer
Creating a C# Service Step-by-Step: Lesson I
You don't give much information about what you application does, but either Console or Forms will be displayed on the TaskManager, and even as a process it will be shown over the Processes tab so I'm not sure what are your intentions with this.
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I'm new in programming with .Net and C# and, as said in the title, I have a WPF app which is accessible in a system tray icon and I want to run it a windows service.
Typically, I want an output like it was described in an answer provided in a discussion here.
If you want it in the system tray I think what you'll have to do is make it a Windows service. I've only written 1 Windows Service and that was years ago, but I believe that's what you'll have to do. If I'm correct about writing a Windows service, then what I would suggest you do is create a new Visual Studio solution and add two projects to it. One would be a DLL which would run as a Windows service. The second project would be a WPF project that will be your UI the user interacts with. Then you'll have to use some messaging system to communicate between the two. For the action messages that would mimic what Outlook does, I've used some WPF toast messages to accomplish that. If you Bing/Google "WPF toast popup" you'll get lots of results.
I have many searched in Internet and find some helpful answers like:
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You can't, not directly, because the windows service will necessarily start when the machine does, not when a user logs in. The service will also be running in a different context, likely as a different user. What you can do is to write a separate system tray based "controller" that interacts with the service.
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It needs some effort to achieve. Well, just two hints: 1) use static property System.Environment.UserInteractive to detect in which mode your application is running, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment.userinteractive.aspx; 2) get rid of app.xaml, because it will force starting WPF Application in all cases; instead, create and run and instance of System.Windows.Application (or better, a specially derived class) explicitly and only for interactive mode, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.application.aspx.
And, I could not apply their instructions.
Thanks advance!
I have a windows service which needs to open a WPF application based on an event.
I am done with coding and when I run a WPF application instance through a process from my custom window service then it opens the app but hidden to me.
I confirmed it's existence from task manager where my app instance has been created but APP GUI not visible to me.
I also tried using "ProcessExtensions" class available on Github but that didn't help.
Please suggest what should I do for this!
Some saying for IPC mechanism but that I don't wanna use. Please let me know how can I achieve it!
This is based on C#. I am having a classlibrary in which I would like to know specifically if its being called from a windows based application
I searched a lot but all I found was code to know if it was called from a Console application.
I only want to know if its called from a windows based application or not
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If you want to know whether the application is running as a service or system app and thus cannot display a dialogue, test the state of Environment.UserInteractive.
There is no easy way to determine if the application is a windows or cmd-based application. For example, I might build a winforms-based application that doesn't create a window and instead runs as command-line style application by not opening a window.
Two (not necessarily reliable) ways of testing if it's a windows-based app would be to test Application.OpenForms (if it contains forms, then it's a windows app) or Environment.GetCommandLineArgs() (if 0 args, assume it's a windows app).
If you absolutely need to know whether the app is a console or windows one, then you need to step out of the world of managed code and start delving into the exe file using unmanaged C++ code. There is just one byte difference between the two in the PE header of the exe file: Subsystem is set to 2 for a windows app and 3 for a cmd app. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms809762.aspx and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/90493/en-us for details if you really want to do this.
I'm developing an application which acts as a GUI for Minecraft Server (runs as a console Java application).
I have finished it and I also want to add a console inside the Winforms application because I want to give users more control over the program. But using streams (Process.StandardOutput) I can't simulate a console as it sometimes changes the cursor position, clears the console, etc...
So, I want to embed the process into the application somehow. The first solution I tried was removing the borders and positioning it accordingly to the form's position but unfortunately I couldn't do it.
Any working code snippets would be greatly appreciated!
You cannot target both subsystem gui and console in the same module (msdn).
Instead, you could add a separate console application that uses SOAP to communicate with your application. Take a look at WCF to achieve this task.
I want to create an executable in VS 2010. This executable will be create an excel spreadsheet and will transfer that file via FTP. I want this executable to be fired off via Windows tasks.
What is the best way to accomplish this? Would I create a regular windows form application, dll, or Empty Project, or windows service?
Thank you in advance for any assistance.
A plain old console application scheduled with the task scheduler should do the trick.
If you need the application to run when a computer is turned on but no one is logged in, create a service. If your application runs only when someone is logged in, but has no UI, use a console application. If your application runs only when someone is logged in and has a UI, use a Winforms app.
I'm not sure what the current best practice is, but in our shop we create console applications and use the task scheduler to execute them.
A library (dll) won't be executable from the task scheduler AFAIK, and a WinForms app isn't very useful for any app that runs automatically (i.e.: doesn't require user interaction).
A service would be appropriate for an application that needs to respond to system events/changes when they occur, which doesn't sound like your use case.