Help with c# and web services

[simboss]

I need to write a simple web service to run a simple application upon client invocation.
I wrote the following code customizing the code provided by the default wizard.

[WebMethod]
public string StartBatchFile()
{
try
{

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\\wace23b4i.exe");
}
catch
{
return "error";
}

return "Success";
}


The code compiles and runs, but when I invoke the service, even if I get back the message success, nothing happens!!
I hope someone could tell me something soon about this stupid problem.
Thx ya all!

 

[Menge]

the web service is run as a webservice on the HOST computer. services no not interact with user sessions. so the program IS in fact running... just not on your user. but on the service user.

 

[simboss]

You are completely right, during the night I arrived at the same conclusion using the task manager to understand what was happening. Anyway my problem is still there, I hope someone can suggest me how to come up with a solution for this problem, or at least give me some indications.

 

[Menge]

well the way found the simplest to solve this is to have an app running in user space monitoring a folder and the service saving a file to that folder... so the app in user space would execute the code instead of the server-side one. you could take this a step further by adding some sort of communication between them but i think it's plain overhear

 

[Robby]

You can setup a simple web service to monitor the progress or stutus of the Windows service.