One of my least favorite things to build

[honey the codewitch]

A windows service. It's not even the service part itself. It's the permissions and the IPC that's typically necessary in order to control it. They should make it simpler or something. I've always hated the windows service architecture anyway.

To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

[PIEBALDconsult]

I've never had an issue with them, in C#.

[Daniel Pfeffer]

Trust me, a Windows device driver is even worse!

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

[den2k88]

So far it's the worse thing I ever had to build.

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[honey the codewitch]

Oh, I agree, and I avoid them.

To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

[honey the codewitch]

It really depends on what you're doing, particularly the permissions under which the service operates.

To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

[Andreas Saurwein]

Ever tried a Cryptography Provider? Kind of a mix between device driver and service, real fun to debug.

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[TNCaver]

Do you create a dedicated AD service account with the appropriate permissions and assign execution to that account?

There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
   - Thomas Sowell

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
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[honey the codewitch]

I'm not dealing with Active Directory, no. At least not for what I'm currently doing. It would be overkill.

To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

[Ron Anders]

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[11917640 Member]

It looks like Windows service developers spend almost all their time, solving the problems with permissions, user accounts and Desktop access.

[megaadam]

honey the codewitch wrote:

A win

And at that point I stopped reading!

"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"