The below article might help: The dreadful SUO file and ASP.NET Web Projects in VisualStudio .NET 2002/2003[^] Maxwell Chen

Assembly.Load loads an assembly which is in the same directory with your application's executable. Try Assembly.LoadFile or Assembly.LoadFrom but then your application can only run in FullTrust for security reasons.

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Oops.... Sorry, I thought mono was available on the Sun platform. But I double checked and it isn't available yet. The Mono implementation of the .NET development platform provides a superior development environment for writing Linux applications with unprecedented productivity by allowing developers to write rich client, web services and server-side applications and deploy them on Linux, Netware, MacOS and Microsoft Windows.[^] "If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -- Joseph E. O'Donnell Can't manage to P/Invoke that Win32 API in .NET? Why not do interop the wiki way!

Actually, you can use any application and then use the ServiceController to reference and start your service. This allows you time to attach to a process (or start the process that starts your service) so that you can debug the service all the way from OnStart. If you don't do it this way, all you can do is attach to a running process (your service). By the time the process has started, OnStart has already been called. That's the reason for a separate process to start the service. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

That greatly depends. If the checksum of the PE/COFF executable was no updated, the SCM (service control manager) or even the executable loader may find that the executable is invalid and won't load and execute it. Make the modifications to the source if you have it, and reinstall the service. You could alternatively export the IL, change it, and reassemble it. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

Where is the application stopping? Have you tried setting break points? Are any errors being thrown?

If it is a program in the path, then you can use the SearchPath() API function (I'm not sure if there is an analog somewere in the .net library; you'll have to look for it and if you don't find it, just do a little DllImport). If it isn't in the path, then you need to do a little of your own research to determine what's the best way to find it. As mav has suggested, it may be in the registry, but its exact location can be arbitrary, of course, so you need to do a bit of research on the particular application you are dealing with (i.e. use RegEdit). Matt Gerrans

Well, so much for that idea. :) "if you vote me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" - Michael P. Butler.

SatyaDY wrote: If anybody got some clue First CLUE: Post in the correct forum SatyaDY wrote: just advise Advice: Post in the correct forum ;) Yes, I program in VB6, but only because I use it to fill my addiction to having a dry place to sleep and food to eat!

U mean to say that U don't have the code of the application. Then U are trying to do reverse Engineering. If yes? you are going to loose Ur hairs soon.

When you display a dialog (using standard Windows), it uses it's own internal message loop to process the message while your main application has the primary message loop used for normal processing. Hi Tim, Is this the case with both Modal and Modeless Dialog Boxes ?? How it is actually implemented?? What are the classes involved in doing this?? How we can create multiple message loops and link them with the application. Regards Satya

I think you can use the ordinary "TRACE" inside each threads, and then use F5 to debug. This will only show you the sequence of operations that really happen. But the advantage is that you will know what is happened on when But don't use too many TRACE, on each thread, cause doing so will make the debug report is too long and hard to TRACE does it help? :-O Programming or Die? ----C++ 4 ever-----

Hi, since now I used sonething like this: System.IO.FileInfo fi = new System.IO.FileInfo(Application.ExecutablePath); GlobalContainer.ExecutablePath = fi.DirectoryName; fi = null; Help states: Property Value The path and executable name for the executable file that started the application. Caveeat: You need to reference System.Windows.Forms. -sa -- http://www.livingit.de http://www.mobile-bookmarks.info http://www.not2long.net

See I dont know the exact reason, But for finding the exe, it must be having some process area, there are some APIs exists to enumerate the Process and threads. EnumProcesses EnumProcessModules Then this link http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q178893 might help you to kill application safely. VikramS