The Srvany does not sent any messages but terminates application running as service using TerminateProces. I dunno about the rest.

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>Yes I could and have but that does not fire either. According to my log files....
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>From what I can tell there are 3 basic solutions to running a VFP app as a service that I have found.
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>1) The Srvany Solution
>2) The XYNTService Solution
>3) And an FLL solution from Tracy Pearson
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>In 1 and 2, the Service manager calls another exe which loads your app. So I am assuming the Service manager would talk to these exe's on shutdown these EXE's would in return talk to my VFP exe
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>In 3 the Service Manager loads my VFP exe, I load an FLL which then handles somethings that are difficult to do from within VFP.
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>With 1 the app is killed before any communications is completed to the vfp exe
>With 2 there is a timeout feature that can be set for the XYNTService to wait before it attempts to kill the vfp exe.
>With 3 its a new piece of code, not meant for the general market, so at this point we went with 2
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>ON SHUTDOWN does not fire, unless my code has a problem which could be the same for doing the bindevent I showed above. At this point I am trying to verify what is the normal actual shutdown message, trying to cross check things.