I've developed a Console Application that connects to RabbitMQ then process some messages. I'm using Topshelf to allow the execution as a service without (on the paper) issues, but when I run it as a service I got the following exception
Application: XXX.exe Framework
Version: v4.0.30319 Description: The process was terminated due to an
unhandled exception. Exception Info: System.IO.FileNotFoundException
at
Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.FileConfigurationProvider.Load(Boolean)
at Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.FileConfigurationProvider.Load()
at
Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.ConfigurationRoot..ctor(System.Collections.Generic.IList`1)
at Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.ConfigurationBuilder.Build() at
XXX.Program.Main(System.String[])
Now I think it's somehow missing the configuration file or some dll but I've all the files a folder on c:\services\myservice. If I run the exe from command prompt it works flawlessly.
I've also tried to set the identity to network service / admin user and similar... with no luck. I'm using TopShelf 4.0.4
Any suggestion?
Thanks
SOLUTION
It was a fault of mine...
I had to use
var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
.SetBasePath(Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location))
.AddJsonFile("appsettings.json")
.AddJsonFile("appsettings.{environmentName}.json",true,true);
instead of
var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
.SetBasePath(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()) //(which is the default code present on MS site)
.AddJsonFile("appsettings.json")
.AddJsonFile("appsettings.{environmentName}.json",true,true);
As suggested by #bozoJoe here's the answer to my question, for upvote
SOLUTION
It was a fault of mine...
I had to use
var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
.SetBasePath(Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location))
.AddJsonFile("appsettings.json")
.AddJsonFile("appsettings.{environmentName}.json",true,true);
instead of
var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
.SetBasePath(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()) //(which is the default code present on MS site)
.AddJsonFile("appsettings.json")
.AddJsonFile("appsettings.{environmentName}.json",true,true);
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Hey, I am trying to get a service to start my program but it isn't showing the GUI. The process starts but nothing is shown. I have tried enabling 'Allow service to interact with desktop' but that still isn't working.
My program is a computer locking device to stop unauthorised users from accessing the computer. I am running windows 7 with a 64 bit OS.
Here is the code for my service:
protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = "notepad.exe";
p.Start();
FileStream fs = new FileStream(#"C:\Users\David\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\LockPCService\LockPCService\bin\Debug\ServiceLog.dj",
FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write);
StreamWriter m_streamWriter = new StreamWriter(fs);
m_streamWriter.BaseStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.End);
m_streamWriter.WriteLine(" LockPCService: Service Started " + DateTime.Now + "\n" + "\n");
m_streamWriter.Flush();
m_streamWriter.Close();
}
protected override void OnStop()
{
FileStream fs = new FileStream(#"C:\Users\David\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\LockPCService\LockPCService\bin\Debug\ServiceLog.dj",
FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write);
StreamWriter m_streamWriter = new StreamWriter(fs);
m_streamWriter.BaseStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.End);
m_streamWriter.WriteLine(" LockPCService: Service Stopped " + DateTime.Now + "\n"); m_streamWriter.Flush();
m_streamWriter.Close();
}
To try and get the service working I am using notepad.exe. When I look at the processes notepad is running but there is no GUI. Also the ServiceLog is there and working each time I run it.
Any ideas on why this isn't working?
Thanks.
This article explains Session 0 Isolation which among other things disallows services from creating a UI in Windows Vista/7. In your service starts another process, it starts in Session 0 and also will not show any UI. (By the way, the UI is created, it's just that Session 0 is never displayed). This article on CodeProject can help you create a process from a service on the user's desktop and show its UI.
Also, please consider wrapping you stream objects in a using statement so that they are properly disposed.
Services run under different account so notepad is run by another user and on another desktop so that's why you cannot see it. 'Allow service to interact with desktop' is not supported anymore starting from Vista.
I know this is a late post, but I found that this article was very helpful to me. I am running Windows 7 and the solution provided in this article works great.
If you download the code, there is a class called ApplicationLoader. Include that class in your project and then it's as simple as this:
// the name of the application to launch
String applicationName = "cmd.exe";
// launch the application
ApplicationLoader.PROCESS_INFORMATION procInfo;
ApplicationLoader.StartProcessAndBypassUAC(applicationName, out procInfo);
Services run in a different logon session and have a different window station from the user. That means that all GUI activity is segregated from the user's programs, not that the service can't display a GUI. Actually, this design makes it much easier to temporarily block access to the user's programs.
You'll need to call SwitchDesktop.
In my code below I am attempting to create a producer client that i can use to send events to a Event Hub. I am getting a System.PlatformNotSupportedException: 'The WebSocket protocol is not supported on this platform. error Any guidance on how i can resolve this would be much appreciated. FYI my platform is Windows 7, although this program is intended to run on a windows 2008 server or later.
var producerOptions = new EventHubProducerClientOptions
{
ConnectionOptions = new EventHubConnectionOptions
{
TransportType = EventHubsTransportType.AmqpWebSockets,
},
RetryOptions = new EventHubsRetryOptions
{
MaximumRetries = 5,
TryTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1)
}
};
var producer = new EventHubProducerClient(connectionString, eventHubName, producerOptions);
//here is where the error occurs. which is inside a try - catch block
var eventBatch = await producer.CreateBatchAsync();
......
The Event Hubs client library relies on the underlying framework for its transport communication. In this case, it sounds as if you're using the full .NET Framework on Windows 7, where web sockets is not supported.
So long as your aren't using a UWP application, changing the target framework to .NET Core and using the netstandard2.0 target from the client library may work. (see: this PR)
More detail can be found in the accepted answer for this question, which also contains some advice for third party packages that may work as a polyfill.
I am running a console application with no UI and generate thumbmail images from pdf files. The compile file for this application works fine. However I have to call this compile file from windows service application that implement the the FileSystemWatcher class to detect when new pdf files are uploaded into the directory.
and I am using the suggestion from this link
How to run console application from Windows Service?
ProcessStartInfo info = new ProcessStartInfo(appName);
info.UseShellExecute = false;
info.RedirectStandardError = true;
info.RedirectStandardInput = true;
info.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
info.CreateNoWindow = true;
info.ErrorDialog = false;
info.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
Process process = Process.Start(info);
if (!process.HasExited)
{
LogEvent(process.ProcessName + "has started and called Thumbnail application");
}
else
{ LogEvent(process.ProcessName + "has been terminated"); }
I can see the process involking the "pdfThumbnail.exe" but I am getting this error when the application try to execute.
"System.Exception: Cannot create ActiveX component.
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.CreateObject(String ProgId, String ServerName)
at PDFThumbnailCsharp.Main(String[] args)
"
As I have said above the pdfThumbnail.exe execute fine when i run the exe file.
Updates
This is the error from the SysInternals' Process Monitor
The machine-default permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {FF76CB60-2E68-101B-B02E-04021C009402} and APPID
Unavailable to the user NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE SID (S-1-5-19) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.
I have changed the ownership of this CLSID to Administrator with Full control as described on this link
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsserver2008r2general/thread/e303c7e1-16de-42fd-a1a4-7512c1261957
However I am still getting the same error.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
This CLSID {FF76CB60-2E68-101B-B02E-04021C009402} is for Acrobat.Excha.PDDoc on my computer registry. Further investigation with Acrobat on this link https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1467460 revealed that Acrobat cannot be run from service.
What I have done for now until I have a better approach is to create a windows Task Scheduler that listen to an event raised by the windows service when new pdf are created and then trigger the console app that create the thumbnails.
I am trying to use the Google Calendar API in .NET, specifically I am trying to get a list of events. According to the examples here, in different programming languages I need to create a 'service' object and an 'event' object. However, I can't find a clear explanation of what either of these objects is or how to initiate them. Does anyone have an explanation? Or can anyone provide any information or give me a link to where this is explained? It doesn't necessarily have to be in .NET
Here is the example in Java:
String pageToken = null;
do {
events = service.events().list('primary').setPageToken(pageToken).execute();
List<Event> items = events.getItems();
for (Event event : items) {
System.out.println(event.getSummary());
}
pageToken = events.getNextPageToken();
} while (pageToken != null);
Following the advice answered, I am getting the following error:
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Threading.Tasks.Extensions.Desktop, Version=1.0.16.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
Here is the code, the error occurs on the credentials = Await... line
Dim credential As UserCredential
Dim clientSecretsPath As String = Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/client_secret.json")
Dim scopes As IList(Of String) = New List(Of String)()
scopes.Add(CalendarService.Scope.Calendar)
Using stream = New System.IO.FileStream(clientSecretsPath, System.IO.FileMode.Open, System.IO.FileAccess.Read)
credential = Await GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(GoogleClientSecrets.Load(stream).Secrets, scopes, "user", CancellationToken.None)
End Using
The problem with GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker is that it tries to launch a new instance of a web browser to go and get authorization where you have to click the "Grant" button.
Obviously if you're running a MVC project under IIS it's just going to get confused when the code tries to execute a web browser!
My solution:
Download the .net sample projects: https://code.google.com/p/google-api-dotnet-client/source/checkout?repo=samples
Build and run one of the projects relevant to you (Eg Calendar or Drive). Dont forget to include your client_secret.json file downloaded from the cloud console.
Run the project and it will open a new browser on your computer where you will have to click the "Grant" button. Do this once and then your MVC code will work because it will not try to open a web browser to grant the permissions.
I'm not aware of any other way to grant this permission to the SDK but it worked for me just great!
Good luck. This took me a good 5 hours to figure out.
Just had the same issue running VS2013 (using .net45 for my project):
After fetching the CalendarV3 API via NuGet you just have to manually add the reference to:
...packages\Microsoft.Bcl.Async.1.0.165\lib\net40\Microsoft.Threading.Tasks.Extensions.Desktop.dll
to the project (because it is not inserted automatically via the NuGet-Script)!
That's it! Maybe #peleyal is correcting the script somewhen in future ;)
Remember that this sample is for Java. My recommendation is to do the following:
Take a look in our VB sample for the Calendar API which is available here
You should take a look also in other sample for C#, let's say Tasks API sample
Start a new project and add a NuGet reference to Google.Apis.Calednar.v3. Remember that it's prerelease version.
Your code should look like the following:
It's based on the 2 samples above, I didn't compile or test it but it should work.
UserCredential credential;
using (var stream = new System.IO.FileStream("client_secrets.json",
System.IO.FileMode.Open, System.IO.FileAccess.Read))
{
credential = await GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(
GoogleClientSecrets.Load(stream).Secrets,
new[] { CalendarService.Scope.Calendar },
"user", CancellationToken.None);
}
// Create the service.
var service = new CalendarService(new BaseClientService.Initializer()
{
HttpClientInitializer = credential,
ApplicationName = "YOUR APP NAME HERE",
});
var firstCalendar = (await service.CalendarList.List().ExecuteAsync()).Items().FirstOrDefault();
if (firstCalendar != null)
{
// Get all events from the first calendar.
var calEvents = await service.Events.List(firstCalendar.Id).ExecuteAsync();
// DO SOMETHING
var nextPage = calEvents.NextPage;
while (nextPage != null)
{
var listRequest = service.Events.List(firstCalendar.Id);
// Set the page token for getting the next events.
listRequest.PageToken = nextPage;
calEvents = await listRequest.EsecuteAsync();
// DO SOMETHING
nextPage = calEvents.NextPage;
}
}
I had the same error, and it was due to the app trying to launch the accept screen.
I first tried to get the vb.net example from google and ran that, which I did get to work, and change to my secret info, ran and got the accept screen. I then tried my app, and it still did not work.
I noticed that the dll was found here under my project installed from the nuget packages.
...packages\Microsoft.Bcl.Async.1.0.165\lib\net40\Microsoft.Threading.Tasks.Extensions.Desktop.dll
but was not in the net45 dir. So I uninstalled the nuget packages (have to if changing the .net version) then changed my .net version for my project to 4.0 instead of 4.5, reinstalled the nuget packages, and then it worked!!
I'm dipping my toes into Windows Azure, and I'm running into something that has to be simple, but I just can't see it.
I have this small test to play with Azure queues:
public void CanPublishSillyLittleMessageOnQueue()
{
var queueClient = CloudStorageAccount.DevelopmentStorageAccount.CreateCloudQueueClient();
var testQueue = queueClient.GetQueueReference("testqueue1");
testQueue.CreateIfNotExist();
var message = new CloudQueueMessage("This is a test");
testQueue.AddMessage(message);
CloudQueueMessage received;
int sleepCount = 0;
while((received = testQueue.GetMessage()) == null)
{
++sleepCount;
Thread.Sleep(25);
}
testQueue.DeleteMessage(received);
Assert.Equal(message.AsString, received.AsString);
}
It sends the message just fine - I can see it in the SQL table. However, when it hits the "testQueue.DeleteMessage(received)" method, I get this:
TestCase 'AzureExploratory.PlayingWithQueues.CanPublishSillyLittleMessageOnQueue'
failed: System.ArgumentNullException : Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: str
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.Tasks.Task`1.get_Result()
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.Tasks.Task`1.ExecuteAndWait()
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.TaskImplHelper.ExecuteImplWithRetry(Func`1 impl, RetryPolicy policy)
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.CloudQueue.DeleteMessage(CloudQueueMessage message)
PlayingWithQueues.cs(75,0): at AzureExploratory.PlayingWithQueues.CanPublishSillyLittleMessageOnQueue()
which appears to be a failure somewhere down inside the guts of the Azure SDK.
I'm using VS 2010, .NET 4.0, the Azure SDK V1.2, 64-bit Win 7. The developer store service is running; I can see the messages go into the queue, I just can't delete them.
Anyone ever seen anything like this?
I figured out what's going on. The code in question was running in a xUnit test harness. Turns out that the xUnit runner doesn't set up an appdomain with a config file path by default. System.UriBuilder now hits the config file, so it blows up.
The workaround was to add an empty app.config to the test project. Now it works.
ARGH!