Pleinpopossum
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NT Service + Visual Basic
Hello here are a lot of points for the one who will be able to help me :-)
I'm creating a mail dispatcher. This is a program which retrieves mails from pop accounts and send them to users (the way exchange does but I can't use exchange as our needs are to specific). I built a standart program which works fine. Now I would like to use it as a NT service. I read a lot of things on the microsoft web site. I also found some articles about services on that site and on ther web sites but I didn't understand everything.
If someone may explain and help me to complete my project step by step I'd be happy to great him with a large amount of points and all my best whishes :-)
thanks a lot...
P.S. I'll probably have a lot of questions to ask to the one (to thoses ?) who will help me. Don't be afraid :-)
I'm creating a mail dispatcher. This is a program which retrieves mails from pop accounts and send them to users (the way exchange does but I can't use exchange as our needs are to specific). I built a standart program which works fine. Now I would like to use it as a NT service. I read a lot of things on the microsoft web site. I also found some articles about services on that site and on ther web sites but I didn't understand everything.
If someone may explain and help me to complete my project step by step I'd be happy to great him with a large amount of points and all my best whishes :-)
thanks a lot...
P.S. I'll probably have a lot of questions to ask to the one (to thoses ?) who will help me. Don't be afraid :-)
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Pleinpopossum, you really need to come back to all of your questions.
-- Woohoo, I have the VB source for creating a service ;o)
But I'm not going to waste it... :o(
-- Woohoo, I have the VB source for creating a service ;o)
But I'm not going to waste it... :o(
Check this: http://mvps.org/st-software/Code/VB_SRVC.zip
It's quite old and originally, written for WinNT3.51 but I tested it successfully with Win2k -- how does one remove a service? ;o)
It's quite old and originally, written for WinNT3.51 but I tested it successfully with Win2k -- how does one remove a service? ;o)
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Damn !
I thought I did it. I'm sorry I probably had a problem when accepting the answer (the network is sometimes so slow that I stop before the "success" page appears).
Thanks to everyone for helping me. I'll wait for VB.NET to create my service so that I am sure it will work properly
Cheers
I thought I did it. I'm sorry I probably had a problem when accepting the answer (the network is sometimes so slow that I stop before the "success" page appears).
Thanks to everyone for helping me. I'll wait for VB.NET to create my service so that I am sure it will work properly
Cheers
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Thank you very much. Your help was useful to me. I won't use the solutions you provided to me but I learnt a lot about services in following that route.
See you...
See you...
1'st use the ntsrv.ocx (wasnt usefull for me)
second: use the INSTSRV.exe and the SRVANY.exe from the nt resource kit (follow this link - it has all the usefull inf http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q193/2/38.ASP)