Re: User interface and services.exe

On Apr 21, 12:01 pm, "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT
no instrument no spam DOT com> wrote:
It might be physically possible by launching a new thread for a message
loop, etc., but you definitely *shouldn't* do it, even if it's theoretically
possible.  Are you saying that you want the configuration program or
whatever for the service to be part of the service DLL itself?  That's
definitely not the way it's intended to work; write a separate Control Panel
applet or configuration application.  Or are you saying that you want to
have a program that acts as a background service and has some UI?  If that's
it, you should consider not doing this as a service, but just as an
application.

Paul T.

"atomic928" <csmit...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Is there any reason I can not run a GUI from my dll that I load into
services.exe. I do not really want a client/server architecture, I am
trying to keep this as simple as possible with one app/dll for the
whole project.
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This project is ultimately for windows mobile 5 devices and as you
know wm devices are limited to 32 processes. I want to make sure I am
loaded and not bumped out of the startup if I am process 33. My
understanding is that services.exe is a process that will run the dll
as a thread thusly assuring loading of the dll. Now if I run the app
as a separate or stand alone client I am back to the '33' process
dilemma. Or is there some architecture procedure I am missing that I
can assure that I am started as one of the 32 processes?

Thanks
.

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