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If you don't actually have to display any visible results on the screen, you should be fine LocalSystem runs on a different desktop than the logged-in user, so you'd have to circumvent that issue.
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If you don't actually have to display any visible results on the screen, you should be fine LocalSystem runs on a different desktop than the logged-in user, so you'd have to circumvent that issue.

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Right nothing is being displayed on the screen. The purpose of the Display DC is to obtain logical pixels X-Y or font sizes from the current display, ect.<br />
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So based on your response I should conclude that the service will recieve a valid DC which functions that perform actions on that DC (like described above) will all complete successfully?<br />
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Thanks jkr,<br />
Brandon
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Right nothing is being displayed on the screen. The purpose of the Display DC is to obtain logical pixels X-Y or font sizes from the current display, ect.

So based on your response I should conclude that the service will recieve a valid DC which functions that perform actions on that DC (like described above) will all complete successfully?

Thanks jkr,
Brandon

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Hi Experts,<br />
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I am writing a windows service running on Windows Server 2003. The service performs some printing operations by obtaining a printer DC and a display DC. I'm wondering if there should be any issue for the service (running as SYSTEM user) to call GetDC(NULL) or if there is any reason to be concerend about this call? Will it return NULL or have any problems associated with the display HDC returned?<br />
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Thanks for your time,<br />
Brandon
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Hi Experts,

I am writing a windows service running on Windows Server 2003. The service performs some printing operations by obtaining a printer DC and a display DC. I'm wondering if there should be any issue for the service (running as SYSTEM user) to call GetDC(NULL) or if there is any reason to be concerend about this call? Will it return NULL or have any problems associated with the display HDC returned?

Thanks for your time,
Brandon

Windows Service obtaining display device context using GetDC(NULL)

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