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DEE
DEE

Reputation: 373

running UI with windows service

i am planning to run a launch/monitor a UI application using a windows service(written in C#).with "Allow service to interact with desktop " checked. this works fine with windows xp, but with windows 7 a pop is shown as below

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and when i click on view the message , then the whole screen blanks out,with only UI showing up ,as shown below.

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is there any way to make it work without the message being shown and screen going blank.

comments/suggestions appreciated.

Regards DEE

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2776

Answers (2)

Meligy
Meligy

Reputation: 36594

"Allow service to interact with desktop " is a legacy option that is now highly discouraged, and although it exists, is not expected to work in Windows Vista and upwards.

You need to read a bit on why this is the case in this other SO answer:
Allow service to interact with desktop in Windows

Then look for the alternatives discussed in the answer here:
Alternative to "Allow service to interact with desktop"?

Another discussion outside SO:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/windowssdk/thread/f8f91e8f-5954-43a7-8bc4-80ed2ff1e3b1/

Upvotes: 3

David Heffernan
David Heffernan

Reputation: 612874

In Vista and later, services cannot interact with the desktop. Services run under what is known as session 0 isolation. What you are attempting is simply impossible.

You will have to re-write your application so that the UI part resides in a standard Windows application that runs on the logged in user's desktop. This UI part can communicate with the service by whatever IPC mechanism you prefer.

Upvotes: 7

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