Thanks. That sounds interesting.
How did you create a Windows Service that would run a VFP EXE?
>I the past I was with a similar project, my solution was to create an EXE and a service that will run the EXE.
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>In this manner nobody needs to be logged in the workstation as long as it is on the service should be able to fire up.
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>The exe would create a timer and on the timer event you can verify if it is appropriate for the application to run.
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>On another project we needed to have a way to add functionality on the fly to the service sw we created a table where one of the fields would be a memo field with the VFP code we needed to execute, on other fields you can specify if this record is active , how often do you needed running etc.
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>The service would look for active records, compile the memo into a .prg and execute the function as needed
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