An age ago, I researched, and wrote an FLL to allow a VFP program to become
a service.
VFP is not multithreaded, so having multiple things attempt to access it
didn't work out for me.
I changed it to be a C# service that uses multiple instances of a VFP COM
object.
A service is a nice idea, it can run even when a user hasn't logged in to
the system. It can be installed through an installer.
A scheduled task, does a lot of the same things. I don't know that it can be
setup via an installer.
For an in house project I have the network admin setup a scheduled task.
For production products we ship, it's C#.
YMMV,
Tracy
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Subject: RE: VFP Service
Thanks Dave I have quickly tried the NSSM utility Alan mentioned and it
works a treat as a replacement for SRVANY but I will check out the Always Up
app as it sounds interesting.
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Subject: RE: VFP Service
Chris,
The "Always Up" app mentioned at the bottom of the article is good and we
have used it to run some VFP services accessing Exchange which were
previously written in C#.
Dave Crozier
Software Development Manager
Flexipol Packaging Ltd.
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From: ProFox <profox-***@leafe.com> On Behalf Of Chris Davis
Sent: 13 March 2018 12:33
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Subject: VFP Service
Hi All
In the past I have followed this article
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/calvin_hsia/2004/12/13/creating-a-vfp-appli
cation-as-a-service/
Does anyone have any advice about how to approach this on Server 2016 as I
believe SRVANY is no longer an option.
Regards
Chris
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