Thank you. I believe I did see this post a long time ago. But never actually built a service. I will check it out again.
>There is a way make a your app.exe a windows service. The service can be setup to restart your app if it crashes or quits responding. Someone reboots the computer, the service automatically starts again. Take a look at Calvin's blog.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/calvin_hsia/archive/2004/12/13/282351.aspx>
>>I need to process an XML file(s) sent by an external application. I can make the external application drop the XML files in a folder and have a VFP with a timer to pick up these files. Or I can make the external program to automatically run a VFP application and pass it the name of the XML. The latter approach has advantage over the timer program: the timer program could crash and need to be restarted.
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>>>Why does the app need to start so often? It sounds like there is a better solution.
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>>>>Hi,
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>>>>If a process external to VFP application starts a VFP exe application frequently (say every minute or even every half a minute), then lets VFP app process some day and then closes it, is there a potential problem with this scenario?
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>>>>TIA
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