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A couple of years ago I built a suite of Windows Services, one of which was concerned with the sending out of emails to customers based on pre-defined business rules. The service works well,...

I’ll do some digging and see what I can find. I’ll update this thread with anything I find.

I AM using SQL2012 but didn’t know there was a way of generating push notifications in the way you’ve described. Such a technology would be extremely useful, not only for controlling and managing...

Thanks for getting back to me. The reason I was hoping to find a slicker way of doing it is because once I get this service working the way I want to I plan to retrofit existing services to use the...

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I've written a Windows Service which takes its configuration settings from a database. Because the service is running constantly, I need to be sure that the configuration that's being used is...

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In Visual Basic, I've build a suite of Windows Services to run various repetitive tasks throughout the day. I've also built a maintenance service which, at predefined times each...

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I recently built a website in ASP.Net, using VB in the code-behind.

I'm in the process of rewriting the site to make it more responsive to mobile and tablet devices, and have decided to do...

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I wonder if someone could help me. I'm in the process of building a website for a client and at the moment am creating it solely in HTML - it's a simple website so there's no need...

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Thanks very much for your valuable feedback on my query. Regarding iFrames, I'm not massively unhappy that these are no longer in favour because if I'm honest they can be quite fiddly to...

1. Yeah, that's fair comment. It's something I need to play around with to get the desired effect;
2. I had a funny feeling that would be the case, but I thought I'd ask the question in case...

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1. I've been told about not using tables before, but nobody's ever taken the time to explain what the alternatives are. Am I right in assuming that I can use the CSS to anchor a set...

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I've been asked to design and build a website for someone and provide proposals for hosting solutions.

I want to build the site almost exclusively in HTML, using CSS to standardise...

Yeah, I'd hoped there was a way of setting the service recovery action programmatically, so that I (or anyone else who happened to republish the service) didn't need to specifically remember to...

Will that not give me the same issue that I've got at the moment - it'll stop itself but won't start itself?

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I've recently been doing quite a lot of work with Windows Services.

My latest project contains a total of six services. Four of those services are active between 8am and 8pm, while...

I eventually bit the bullet and resorted to hacking the registry and rebooting the computer.

I'm never keen on hacking the registry (even with a backup in place just in case), but I couldn't see...

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I've been building a new Windows Service in vb.NET and have deployed it to my local machine for testing - I deployed it by right-clicking on the Deployment project and clicking Install.
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Thanks to both of you for your prompt replies. In the intervening period I've had a play with the Application.DoEvents method which doesn't seem to have made any difference. For my next trick...

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I've got something odd going on which I hope will make sense to someone because at the moment it's making precisely no sense to me whatsoever.

I've built a Winforms application which reads...

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We're in the process of implementing a single database for the catching of exception messages being generated by our internal applications, some of which are built in VB (mine) and some of...

I tried your suggestion, but couldn't get it working successfully in a production environment. I have however managed to come up with a hack which (whilst not being in the slightest bit graceful)...

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This might sound like a really simple question, but I really hope someone out there can help me with something I can't seem to get my head around.

I'm in the process of writing a Windows...

Ah, I think I now see what you're driving at. I think the best thing I can do now is to follow your advice:

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Thank you very much for your very in-depth response. So far I've simply skimmed it, and my next plan is to take it away and give it the undivided attention it deserves.

One or two...

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I really hope someone can take pity on me and give me some assistance, because I'm sitting here surrounded by the hair that I've torn out this morning.

I'm in the process of...

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I've recently build a Windows Service which takes information from a database and turns it into an outgoing email. It then attempts to transmit that email and (depending on the response that...

You might also be interested to know that you can resize the whole combo box, rather than just the drop-down list.

I've just built a WinForm where the combo box is populated when the form is...

I've managed to figure it out, by adding a confirmation message on the FormClosing button.

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I'm in the process of building a vb.NET Winforms application that I want to have firing a series of events when the user closes it down. I've successfully managed to find the code that I need...

JMC, you're an absolute life-saver.

In my defence as a newbie to the world of service-writing, I dragged the Timer control from the Toolbox. Whilst I admit that the fact it was in the "All...

I agree with everyone that's replied to this post. I recently built a login page for a publicly-available website and was advised by a colleague to use the salt & hash approach. It's really secure...

If you really want to allow someone to enter a time value (such as 11:02 or 14:17) into a text field, why not simply analyse the length of the incoming string and break accordingly?

It would look...

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A few months ago I wrote an application which sits on one of our servers and is triggered at 5-minute intervals by Windows Task Scheduler. The application interrogates a SQL database...

Believe it or not the DPA rules are actually easier to apply. When we send out a communication (email or SMS) it is only an invitation for someone to call us. When they make that call, they are...

Absolutely not. I'm always keen to hear other people's perspectives on the issues I'm dealing with.

The biggest headache for us is that a lot of the FCA/Ofcom guidelines, whilst being quite...

The industry that we're in (Debt Management) is very strictly regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and, because a lot of our business involves outbound calling we're also overseen by Ofcom. ...

To be honest, the more I think about it, the more I'm thinking that I should count the number of records that are due to be handled - if the count is greater than zero then loop through each record,...

Thanks to both TechGnome and FunkyDexter.

TG, you're 100% right in assuming that I'm using a database (MS-SQL 2012). I can also tell both of you that I understand your concerns regarding letting...

Sadly the example provided by Code Project is a C# solution. Whilst it probably wouldn't be the biggest hassle to refactor that for VB, I'd prefer to keep my learnings to one-at-a-time :)

Yeah, the logging is already being handled the old-fashioned way - write a new line to a log file for the current day.

In terms of where the service will be housed, it would be my intention to...