ServiceOnset is an utility to help you to run one or more programs as a windows service. Is it cool? The most typical usage is for Node.js, COW, regular jobs and so on. ServiceOnset is a wrapper program implemented as a windows service. So it enables some of foreground applications started before login.

Windows operation with Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0

1. Clone and build the solution with VisualStudio or download the binary package directly.

InstallUtil.exe
log4net.config
log4net.dll
ServiceOnset.exe
ServiceOnset.exe.json

2. Start a command line with Administrator privilege.
3. Navigate to the directory of the binary package.
4. Run InstallUtil ServiceOnset.exe to install the service.
5. Change the config of ServiceOnset as you want. Refer to ServiceOnset.exe.json
6. Optional. Change the config of log4net if you want assign a dedicated logger for a service. Refer to log4net Config

<log4net>
  <root>
    <appender-ref ref="Default" />
  </root>
  <appender name="Default" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
    <file value="logs/log" />
    <appendToFile value="true" />
    <rollingStyle value="Date" />
    <datePattern value="yyyyMMdd&quot;.log&quot;" />
    <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
      <conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %-5level %logger [%property{NDC}] - %message%newline" />
    </layout>
  </appender>
</log4net>

7. Open windows services manager and start ServiceOnset service. Or directly execute net start ServiceOnset.
8. Enjoy ~~

1. Stop the service net stop ServiceOnset if it is running.
2. Start a command line with Administrator privilege.
3. Navigate to the directory of the binary package.
4. Run InstallUtil /u ServiceOnset.exe to remove the service.
5. Clean up the directory.

{
	"enableLog": true,
	"services": [
		{
			"name": "PingBaidu",
			"command": "ping",
			"arguments": "www.baidu.com",
			"workingDirectory": "",
			"runMode": "interval",
			"intervalInSeconds": 10,
			"useShellExecute": false,
			"enableLog": true
		},
		{
			"name": "mywinTesting",
			"command": "mywin"
		}
	]
}

1. Make sure cow.exe or cow-hide.exe or cow-taskbar.exe with rc.txt can work.
2. Extract ServiceOnset binary package to COW directory. And config like this:

{
	"enableLog": true,
	"services": [
		{
			"name": "COW",
			"command": "cow.exe"
		}
	]
}

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