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Re: Windows Service class constructor and OnStart method

14-Apr-08 3:20

Hello everyone,

Suppose we have a class which is derived from ServiceBase, which provides Windows Service. My question is, what is the best practices that what kind of code to put into constructor of the class, and what kind of code to put into OnStart method of the class?

thanks in advance,
George

Mark J. Miller14-Apr-08 4:52

Mark J. Miller

14-Apr-08 4:52

Set the service name in the ctor, and do the reset in OnStart. See the link below:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.serviceprocess.servicebase.servicebase.aspx[^]

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Re: Windows Service class constructor and OnStart method

George_George14-Apr-08 21:50

14-Apr-08 21:50

Cool, Thanks Mark!

regards,
George

.Net Profiler

hatemtaleb14-Apr-08 3:05

hatemtaleb

14-Apr-08 3:05

Hi,

Is there a good and free .Net profiler?

Thanks

Re: .Net Profiler

John_Adams14-Apr-08 3:32

John_Adams

14-Apr-08 3:32

Hi
When you want a full fledge profiler with some extra features the I would suggest you try ANTS Profiler. However, you may try any of the following available tools:

1- NCover
2- NDepend
3- ANTS Profiler
4- .NET Memory Profiler
5- AQtime .NET Edition 2 - Automated Profiling and Debugging
6- Compuware DevPartner Studio Professional Edition
7- Compuware DevPartner Profiler
8- Allocation Profiler
9- CoverageEye.NET
10- NProf

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Re: .Net Profiler

Simon P Stevens14-Apr-08 3:33

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14-Apr-08 3:33

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Re: .Net Profiler

Pete O'Hanlon14-Apr-08 3:50

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14-Apr-08 3:50

CLR Profiler[^] is pretty good - and free.

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construction order

George_George14-Apr-08 2:51

14-Apr-08 2:51

Hello everyone,

For the following code, it is correct to say that,

1. obj1 will be instialized when .NET Runtime loads class Foo and before any instance is created?

2. obj2 will be created each time we create an instance of Foo, and obj2 will be called before constructor?

My question is whether my understanding (1) and (2) are correct?

class Foo
{
    static private object obj1 = new object();
    private object obj2 = new object();
    public Foo()
    {
    }
}

thanks in advance,
George

Christian Graus14-Apr-08 3:08

Christian Graus

14-Apr-08 3:08

Yeah, I believe so. You can write your own classes in place of the objects, and check it for yourself.

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George_George14-Apr-08 3:11

14-Apr-08 3:11

Cool, Christian!

Question answered.

regards,
George

Guffa14-Apr-08 3:42

Guffa

14-Apr-08 3:42

George_George wrote:
1. obj1 will be instialized when .NET Runtime loads class Foo and before any instance is created?

No. The obj1 member will be initialised before any member of the Foo class is used, but not necessarily when the assembly is loaded.

George_George wrote:
2. obj2 will be created each time we create an instance of Foo, and obj2 will be called before constructor?

Yes.

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George_George14-Apr-08 4:00

14-Apr-08 4:00

Thanks Guffa,

Question answered.

regards,
George

Hiding a tabPage

Harvey Saayman14-Apr-08 2:40

Harvey Saayman

14-Apr-08 2:40

hey guys

i need to hide or disable one of the pages in my tab control, but i cant find visible or enabled properties?

how else can i do it?

thanx

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phannon⁸⁶14-Apr-08 2:53

phannon⁸⁶

14-Apr-08 2:53

From MSDN:

Additionally, the Hide method of the TabPage will not hide the tab. To hide the tab, you must remove the TabPage control from the TabControl..::.TabPages collection.

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Harvey Saayman14-Apr-08 2:56

Harvey Saayman

14-Apr-08 2:56

thanx... but how will i put it back if its removed from the tabcontrol?

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phannon⁸⁶14-Apr-08 2:59

phannon⁸⁶

14-Apr-08 2:59

My thoughts too, could you perhaps store the removed object locally somehow?

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thread safety in Windows Service design

Harvey Saayman14-Apr-08 3:02

Harvey Saayman

14-Apr-08 3:02

i think i could... everything being objects and all that.

thanx man, ill see how it works

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George_George14-Apr-08 2:28

14-Apr-08 2:28

Hello everyone,

For Windows Service, for example class Service1 is the main class of my service application, which derives from ServiceBase. I am wondering whether it is possible that two concurrent access to the following 3 cases?

1. the constructor of Service1;
2. OnStart method of Service1;
3. OnStop method of Service.

If yes, I need some synchronizaton control in them. If yes, in what situation the three methods will be called concurrently? We are able to start/stop the same service with different instances (processes) at the same time?

thanks in advance,
George

Dario Solera14-Apr-08 2:35

Dario Solera

14-Apr-08 2:35

I'm not really an expert here, but I think that since Windows Services are all handled in a unique central place, there is no need to worry about the constructor/OnStart/OnStop methods. However, you have to worry about access to other resources your service might use during normal operations.

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George_George14-Apr-08 2:44

14-Apr-08 2:44

Thanks Dario,

Is it possible that two different instances (processes) for the same Windows service will be started and run at the same time?

regards,
George

Dario Solera14-Apr-08 3:00

Dario Solera

14-Apr-08 3:00

George_George wrote:
Is it possible that two different instances (processes) for the same Windows service will be started and run at the same time?

No, unless you create two different services that point to the same executable.
Anyway, a service can be started only once, even using command-line tools or WMI.

On the other hand, two processes do not implicitly share memory, so you would not have concurrency problems even in the case a service was started twice, except for file access I guess (remember that all the Windows API are reentrant).

George_George14-Apr-08 3:04