Application as windows asynchronous service

Hello, I build a LabVIEW for Windows Application to run as a Windows Service, Applications it has several layers of asynchronous process, which most of them works very well, but I'm having some trouble.

If I run the Application as an executable file (double click on the application icon), it works fine, no problem. Now if I run the same Application as a Windows Service, some of the process is not working properly, these are

A service Web of LabVIEW that runs with the executable built
A DDE server that is a library that already includes the LabVIEW

It seems that these processes, which takes place in parallel with the main application does not properly with it is to run as a Windows Service, I hope that any expert to help me with these

Hi Carrasquel,

I guess that these processes interact with user interfaces and other files of session basis and so on.

Since VISTA, the policy is applied to the services Windows means that more strict and you can not directly interact with the desktop.

http://StackOverflow.com/questions/53232/how-can-i-run-a-Windows-GUI-application-on-as-a-service

https://msdn.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/d56de412 (v = vs. 110) .aspx

How to workaround:

https://msdn.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/Windows/desktop/ms683502 (v = vs. 85) .aspx

Tags: NI Software

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