Since services run before the user logs in, you will have to be carefull with what you do. The desktop may not be present when you expect it to be. It is better to write an application that interfaces with the service and have a GUI less service IMO. Ant.

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Members of class are constructed in order, in which are declared. It doesn't depend on, whether they are initialized in class constructor. And it also doesn't depend on the order of member initializers in class constructor. So in your example the line b should be before the line a. Robert-Antonio "Life is very hard, if you apply E-R model to it."

sanomni wrote: wots the easiest way Replication - though it certainly ain't easy, it will give you the ability to have real-time two-way synchronisation.... Can be a bit of a beast to set up though...have a document lying around if you're interested. "Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......" Christian Graus At The Soapbox

SC_HANDLE hSCM; hSCM = OpenSCManager( NULL, NULL, SC_MANAGER_ALL_ACCESS ); if(hSCM==NULL) { LOGERROR("ERROR opening SC manager"); } SERVICE_DESCRIPTION sd; sd.lpDescription=sDescription; SC_HANDLE hService=OpenService(hSCM, "My Service", SERVICE_ALL_ACCESS); ChangeServiceConfig2(hService, SERVICE_CONFIG_DESCRIPTION,&sd); CloseServiceHandle(hService); CloseServiceHandle(hSCM); It's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature. suhredayan@omniquad.com messenger :suhredayan@hotmail.com

You can certainly use CreateProcess to create a new instance of your application, then quit your current process (the way you do this will depend on your application, for example, you might need to close your main window). Service processes can be configured in the Services snap-in to automatically restart if the process crashes. See the ChangeServiceConfig2 API. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

The MFC database stuff will tend to cache rows if you don't use the right cursors. ...cmk Save the whales - collect the whole set

The constructor runs on whatever thread creates the CWinThread object (at the point the object is created). InitInstance runs on the thread itself once it has been started. Typically there isn't much difference between the two, but things like Thread Local Storage will be affected. MFC uses a fair amount of Thread Local Storage internally. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder