I am trying to build application which is show form when a user clicks on it but not when the windows started up like many applications that run in the background without showing gui on desktop for example, how application can recognize when a user clicks on application and when windows startup do that?
I tried notifyicon and other things but did not help so any reference to the tutorial or help is welcome.
How did I hear I need to build a service application or application with the installation, is that correct?
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We use Openkiosk ( Firefox browser Based ) - credits MDG for kiosk operation of our web application running through IIS ( MVC web app) and SQL Serever . We have configured it to automatically start on windows log in by using the GPO - custom User Interface and it works perfectly fine.
The purpose of launching the web application in full screen is to prevent Desktop access to the user and also disable all short cut keys .
Of late we have received a new requirement where we have to Launch another desktop app ( exe. ) on demand when the Openkiosk is open and switch in between both the Openkiosk app as well as the exe app whenever the user requires . Since the desktop is not visible how we launch the Desktop is the question and also ,Since the Key board is disabled Alt Tabs wont work. Kindly advise and guide how we can achieve this ?
Still figuring it out how to achieve this
I have got a vb.net windows service that runs a File System Watcher to monitor an xml file for changes, when it detects a change it will stop the screen saver running and what I would then like it to do is give one of the other running applications the focus.
I have successfully used Appactivate from a Windows Form App in the past but I think I am correct in saying this doesn't work with Windowless applications (I have tried it and it doesn't).
I have done some Googling but I can't seem to find any way of getting the focus when called from a service \ windowless app. Is this possible?
Thanks
what if you make it a single instance application? and then simply launch its .exe file? it might give focus to the other running application instead of opening a new instance.
I've got one for you thats been bugging me for a bit.
If you run a Windows Service as Local System, how can that service display forms or prompts on the user desktop?
I tried this in one of my previous apps and couldn't get it to work; I settled on having an 'invisible' app running in the user context to handle any user interaction. But as time has passed, I've seen some apps that have nothing more than a service running as local system and yet they produce prompts and forms on the user desktop.
Thanks in advance for any info :)
I have an application that is a Windows Service application. It currently reads an XML file for it's configuration and the code works off those settings.
I have created a separate project that is a Windows Forms application (typical windows app). This app is a GUI interface into the configuration settings (changed from XML to database, but that is relatively unimportant).
What I need to do is:
Integrate the 2 projects
Add a system tray icon to pop up the form
I'm unsure exactly how to proceed on this and wanted to get some advice before messing things up.
You can't integrate these two things (entirely). A service is designed to run without a GUI of any kind (there is a work around to allow desktop interaction but this is messy and clunky and will cause you more problems than it solves)
It sounds like you just need to use the code from the service in the forms application. This should be a simple copy and paste operation.
To show an icon in the system tray is pretty easy:
Create a program to run from the system tray
how to put an .net application in system tray when minimized?
I have built an application that connects to the exchange server and does some scanning tasks on the incoming mail.
Application has a form where i can start and stop scanning,give in an interval, do some other configuration, and a notificationicon in the taskbar to show hide,end and so on..
The problem is that I would like the application to start as a service, because now a user has to log in first on the server before it starts working.
I tried some tools like RunAsService, i had a service, but obviously it didn't run the application.
Of course i understeand now that when the application will run as a service, scanning will be the only thing that will happen, no forms and no notification icons.
However i do not know where to start, should i extract the scanning logic from my configuration as a separate application? What application type should it become then ?
You have two easy options.
First one just create a new Windows Service Project from your New Project button in the Visual Studio, and then just program your app.
Second one, just create a service from the service management window in your computer and add the executable file of your program. It will start running as a service (with visible windows and everything as you coded it).
You should follow this link and schedule your vb.net windows program as windows task
In Your code, at the end ,when everything gets executed you should write Me.Close() to hide your form.