Starting Services in VB

Maybe usefull...

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/10313144/Start-Stop-NT-Service.html

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talk about a coincidence - I spent the whole day yesterday trying to get my application as a service.

first tried using servany.exe - which you can download from the net - it also comes with 2 other files that allows you to run a service...

now that did create the service, but was not running.

so found some api.. and same deal.

finally I figured it out - services needs to be event driven - so downloaded a copy of NTSVC.OCX, and with events you can install, start, stop, pause, uninstall the service.

If you want to avoid the agro and grief of using pointers in structures, copymemory etc etc to Win32 API, then try Windows Management Instrumentation, much easier and less grief here are some useful links for you to check out:


WMI Win32_Service
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/win32_service.asp

And some easy code examples on info above:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/scriptcenter/scrguide/sas_ser_bwdq.asp


I wrote my own Service Control Program using just WMI, it does pretty much what the Win32 APIs do, except for a few things. But I am sure you'll find the WMI Win32_Service class does all what you need.