>>Has anyone been able to create an NT 4.0 service from a GUIless VFP application. I am assuming that the best way would be to first create the app as a COM object.
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>>This application does not have any form of user interface. It's just basically waiting for the existance of an ASCII file which will then be processed.
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>Based on readings in articles in MSJ from early this year, i don't believe that VFP can generate a service, because of problems establishing the security context of the WinMain() for the VFP application environment. We haven't suceeded in doing so to date at my office, but that doesn't mean that some else knows something I don't...


The NT 4.0 Resource Kit has a tool that lets you make a program run as a service. However, be advised your app should be "fully debugged" because once it runs as a service you can't get to it to see the errors, debug, etc.

John Harvey
http://home.att.net/~john.harvey/vfpstuff.htm