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04-03-2008
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| | Create Windows service that captures shutdown. Hi, as title suggests, I want to create a windows service that can be notified that the computer is shutting down. When it receives this signal it needs to block for about 10 seconds to write some stuff to a file before allowing the machine to continue with shutdown (or possible stop the shutdown if there was an error so that the user can be informed) I am using Visual Studio.NET 2003 and used the windows service template that it provided. I see that the template has a 'CanShutdown' property which means that it should get the shutdown signal when it is terminating but I don't this this will be anygood for cancelling the shutdown if need be. Does anyone know if there is a way to cancel the shutdown without having to create a window and capturing the WM_QUERYENDSESSION message? Regards, John. |
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04-07-2008
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| | RE: Create Windows service that captures shutdown. Hi, You might want to look into WMI. Might be a place to start. Thanks "John" wrote: Quote: > Hi, > > as title suggests, I want to create a windows service that can be > notified that the computer is shutting down. When it receives this > signal it needs to block for about 10 seconds to write some stuff to a > file before allowing the machine to continue with shutdown (or possible > stop the shutdown if there was an error so that the user can be informed) > > I am using Visual Studio.NET 2003 and used the windows service template > that it provided. I see that the template has a 'CanShutdown' property > which means that it should get the shutdown signal when it is > terminating but I don't this this will be anygood for cancelling the > shutdown if need be. > > Does anyone know if there is a way to cancel the shutdown without having > to create a window and capturing the WM_QUERYENDSESSION message? > > Regards, > > John. > |
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04-07-2008
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| | Re: Create Windows service that captures shutdown. Chris wrote: Quote: > Hi, > You might want to look into WMI. Might be a place to start. > > Thanks > > "John" wrote: > Quote: >> Hi, >> >> as title suggests, I want to create a windows service that can be >> notified that the computer is shutting down. When it receives this >> signal it needs to block for about 10 seconds to write some stuff to a >> file before allowing the machine to continue with shutdown (or possible >> stop the shutdown if there was an error so that the user can be informed) >> >> I am using Visual Studio.NET 2003 and used the windows service template >> that it provided. I see that the template has a 'CanShutdown' property >> which means that it should get the shutdown signal when it is >> terminating but I don't this this will be anygood for cancelling the >> shutdown if need be. >> >> Does anyone know if there is a way to cancel the shutdown without having >> to create a window and capturing the WM_QUERYENDSESSION message? >> >> Regards, >> >> John. >> WMI looks very useful indeed. I think I've got a alot of reading to do now. Thanks for the pointer. Regards, John. |
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