Armin,
Thanks for trying. I did the same as you and wrote a VB wrapper for VFP a while back that will start a VFP exe as a service.
I think the problem in VFP is that the C++ service controller part is working with 2 threads of VB which probably can't be duplicated in VFP...
>Claude,
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>I couldn't get it to run as well. It does the same as it did in VFP6, so the VB wrapper still seems to be the only easy solution.
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>Nevertheless it was worth the effort :)
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>Regards,
>Armin
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>>I may have spoken too soon. NTSVC.ocx loaded fine and was able to install/uninstall the service, but, it seems to have a problem with the OCX Start event. I've tried _VFP.autoyield=.F. and DOEVENTS(), but, it didn't seem to help. Looking at the documentation, he seems to have programmed specifically for the VB threading model...