I am trying to send custom commands to a windows service. My application has a windows service and a form. When the service is running I want to create a file in Isolated Storage using a button click event. I am using this tutorial http://arcanecode.com/2007/05/30/windows-services-in-c-sending-commands-to-your-windows-service-part-7/. When I run the program and click the button nothing seems to happen and the file is not place into Isolated Storage. I have put break points on these methods to see if they execute and they seem to work. I am not sure if the button click method can reach the Isolated Storage code in the service from the form but according to this tutorial I cannot see what the problem would be. Source code below.
Form
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.ServiceProcess;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Project2Service;
namespace Project2
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Service1 s = new Service1();
public ServiceInstaller si = new ServiceInstaller();
public ProjectInstaller pi = new ProjectInstaller();
public ServiceController sc = new ServiceController("Project2Service");
private string[] isoType;
string machineName = System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.ComputerName;
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
isoType = new string[] { "User", "Assembly And Domain"};
cboIsoType.Items.AddRange(isoType);
cboIsoType.SelectedIndex = 0;
btnContinue.Enabled = false;
btnPause.Enabled = false;
btnStop.Enabled = false;
}
public void Labels()
{
lblMachine.Text = machineName;
lblSName.Text = s.ServiceName;
lblSType.Text = si.StartType.ToString();
lblSStatus.Text = sc.Status.ToString();
lblPause.Text = sc.CanPauseAndContinue.ToString();
lblShutdown.Text = sc.CanShutdown.ToString();
lblStop.Text = sc.CanStop.ToString();
}
private void btnStart_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Controller.Refresh(); //Gets the current status of service
//if (Controller.Status == ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped)
//{
// Controller.Start();
//}
sc.Start();
sc.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Running);
Labels();
btnStart.Enabled = false;
btnContinue.Enabled = false;
btnStop.Enabled = true;
btnPause.Enabled = true;
}
private void btnStop_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
sc.Stop();
sc.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped);
Labels();
btnStart.Enabled = true;
btnContinue.Enabled = false;
btnPause.Enabled = false;
btnStop.Enabled = false;
}
private void btnPause_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
sc.Pause();
sc.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Paused);
Labels();
btnPause.Enabled = false;
btnContinue.Enabled = true;
btnStart.Enabled = false;
btnStop.Enabled = true;
}
private void btnContinue_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
sc.Continue();
sc.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Running);
Labels();
btnStop.Enabled = true;
btnStart.Enabled = false;
btnPause.Enabled = true;
btnContinue.Enabled = false;
}
private void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
ServiceController sc2 = new ServiceController("Project2Service");
sc2.ExecuteCommand(200);
//if (cboIsoType.SelectedItem.ToString() == "User")
//{
// sc.ExecuteCommand(128);
//}
}
}
}
Service
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.IO.IsolatedStorage;
using System.Linq;
using System.ServiceProcess;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace Project2Service
{
public partial class Service1 : ServiceBase
{
public enum commands
{
LogIt = 200
}
//public enum ServiceCustomCommands { Command1 = 128, Command2 = 129 };
//private IsolatedStorageScope iso;
public Service1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
//iso = IsolatedStorageScope.User | IsolatedStorageScope.Domain;
FileSystemWatcher Watcher = new FileSystemWatcher(@"C:\Users\Martin\Desktop\Project2\ServiceTest");
Watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
Watcher.NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.LastAccess
| NotifyFilters.LastWrite
| NotifyFilters.FileName
| NotifyFilters.DirectoryName;
Watcher.Changed += new FileSystemEventHandler(Watcher_Changed);
Watcher.Created += new FileSystemEventHandler(Watcher_Created);
Watcher.Deleted += new FileSystemEventHandler(Watcher_Deleted);
Watcher.Renamed += new RenamedEventHandler(Watcher_Renamed);
WriteServiceInfo("Service Started!");
}
// This event is raised when a file is changed
private void Watcher_Changed(object sender, FileSystemEventArgs e)
{
WriteServiceInfo("File Changed!");
DirectoryInfo d = new DirectoryInfo(@"C:\Users\Martin\Desktop\Project2\ServiceTest");//Assuming Watch is your Folder
FileInfo[] Files = d.GetFiles("*.txt"); //Getting Text files
string str = "";
foreach (FileInfo file in Files)
{
str = str + ", " + file.Name;
str = str + ", " + file.LastWriteTime;
str = str + ", " + file.CreationTime;
str = str + ", " + file.Length;
WriteServiceInfo(file.Name);
WriteServiceInfo(file.LastWriteTime.ToString());
WriteServiceInfo(file.CreationTime.ToString());
WriteServiceInfo(file.Length.ToString());
}
}
private void Watcher_Created(object sender, FileSystemEventArgs e)
{
WriteServiceInfo("File Created!");
}
private void Watcher_Deleted(object sender, FileSystemEventArgs e)
{
WriteServiceInfo("File Deleted!");
}
private void Watcher_Renamed(object sender, FileSystemEventArgs e)
{
WriteServiceInfo("File Renamed!");
}
private void WriteServiceInfo(string info)
{
FileStream fs = new FileStream(@"C:\Users\Martin\Desktop\Project2\WindowsServiceLog.txt",
FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write);
StreamWriter m_streamWriter = new StreamWriter(fs);
m_streamWriter.BaseStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.End);
m_streamWriter.WriteLine(info + "\n");
m_streamWriter.Flush();
m_streamWriter.Close();
}
protected override void OnStop()
{
WriteServiceInfo("Service Stopped!");
}
protected override void OnCustomCommand(int command)
{
base.OnCustomCommand(command);
if (command == (int)commands.LogIt)
{
IsolatedStorageFile isoFile = IsolatedStorageFile.GetStore(IsolatedStorageScope.User | IsolatedStorageScope.Domain | IsolatedStorageScope.Assembly, null, null);
IsolatedStorageFileStream isoStream = new IsolatedStorageFileStream("LaptopInfo.txt", FileMode.Append, FileAccess.Write, isoFile);
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(isoStream))
{
writer.WriteLine("Data");
}
}
}
//protected override void OnCustomCommand(int command)
//{
// switch ((ServiceCustomCommands)command)
// {
// case ServiceCustomCommands.Command1:
// //Command1 Implementation
// IsolatedStorageFile isoFile = IsolatedStorageFile.GetStore(IsolatedStorageScope.User | IsolatedStorageScope.Domain | IsolatedStorageScope.Assembly, null, null);
// IsolatedStorageFileStream isoStream = new IsolatedStorageFileStream("LaptopInfo.txt", FileMode.Append, FileAccess.Write, isoFile);
// using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(isoStream))
// {
// writer.WriteLine("Data");
// }
// //iso = IsolatedStorageScope.User;
// break;
// case ServiceCustomCommands.Command2:
// //iso = IsolatedStorageScope.User | IsolatedStorageScope.Assembly;
// break;
// default:
// break;
// }
//}
}
}
There's a couple things here: 1. Check the account your service is running as. With your service installer you can specify. I tested your exact scenario (using your code) with System to ensure I can access files on my desktop as a log test and it worked fine. 2. Limit the test case to not log to isolated, but a simple text file log.
I also posted code that I used to your other post - so lets clean this up first and figure out which one to resolve on.