Comments on: Debugging services: an easy way

By: Petar

Petar — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:18:35 +0000

Another nice solution is “simulating” minimal SCM as discussed here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2884631/how-to-debug-a-windows-service-with-delphi/2885198#2885198

The helper unit can be found here: http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d10ntutils.htm

Personally I create a form with one button “Stop Service” which does application.terminate i.e. sending WM_QUIT to the “SCM”

Both methods are very useful and handy

By: So you want to write a service… by JEDI Windows API

So you want to write a service… by JEDI Windows API — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:45:23 +0000

[...] You cannot debug a service like any other application by default. Luckily there is remedy. The JEDI API offers a RunAsSys application that lets you start your Delphi in the SYSTEM context. In this way you just have to do a minor patch to your service source code to make it run like any other application in Delphi. See my post Debugging services: an easy way. [...]

By: Setting the SessionID for a new process by JEDI Windows API

Setting the SessionID for a new process by JEDI Windows API — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:26:06 +0000

[...] you know? 1. You can test this example in your own Delphi environment without writing a service [...]

By: Christian Wimmer

Christian Wimmer — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:05:16 +0000

The service per thread solution is fine. However the topic is about how you can debug a service without using the service manger.

By: Ritsaert Hornstra

Ritsaert Hornstra — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:06:02 +0000

Shoudn’t you use a thread per service and run the serviceexecute per thread and a main thread that waits for until all service threads are terminated?

By: Christian Wimmer

Christian Wimmer — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:23:27 +0000

Yes, this is a copy&paste error. It should read My instead of XP. I already adapted it.
The method ServiceExecute is the main service execution procedure of your service. We just call it directly.

By: Christophe Rozec

Christophe Rozec — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:07:35 +0000

Hello,
it seems very useful but i do not manage to use this with one of my service ?
what is XPService in the instruction : XPService.ServiceExecute(nil); ?

what do i missed ?

Thanks,
Christophe