My company has developed one windows analytics application. We have been asked to find ways to invoke this windows application so that we should be able to provide real time analytics using Azure.
Source for data can be either Azure event hub or Azure service bus or anything. We have installed this application in Azure VM but we have no clue how we will be able to invoke this application.
We have searched into Azure functions and Azure logic apps but could not find anything.
Can anyone please help in this?
I'm sorry. You cannot invoke a plain Windows App / Executable located on a VM neither from Azure Functions nor from Logic Apps.
I guess you would need the application or parts of it hosted e.g. as Windows Service and then expose the invocation over HTTP as a REST endpoint. With that you would be able to call it from the above mentioned services.
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Currently, I have full access to a local Windows IIS System in which we execute a windows forms application as a processes in which the winform app runs and takes a screen shot of itself and the web call returns the URL of the saved image. The full process looks like -
User navigates to webpage
User inputs variables on web page and submits it to IIS end point.
IIS takes variables, runs Process.Start on winform app passing in variables.
IIS returns the URL from the screen capture of the winform app.
Is this something that is doable on Azure or Amazon? I'd like to put this in the cloud but I'm not sure if security restrictions would prevent an app like this from being executed as we had to give specific permissions to get this to work.
If you do this now on a server with IIS, you would be able to do it in the cloud (azure or amazon although I have no amazon experience so I'm guessing). The real question is what would you have to deploy. In this case, you cannot use an app service as your platform for this, you would have to run it in a virtual machine with IIS and configure everything as you do now. Or, if you are adventurous and need load balancing, etc. you could try a virtual machine scale set.
One caveat, since I do not know what the windows application does, what it depends on, you may need to put in some networking configuration if the windows app communicates back to an on-prem database or file store.
I created a WCF service and hosted that with in a Windows service it is called self hosting. It is clear to me but my question is.
If we are using self hosting in console application/WPF application then do we need to provide WCF code to each installation instance of application. Or will the WCF service be located centrally?
It is absolutely up to you - only application author can make this decision.
If you are creating some kind of client/server application then in most cases you will need to install your client (WPF) application separately from your server (Console + WCF) part.
There are cases, though, when requirements tell you to install them together - again, only you know.
But there is another aspect - hosting WCF service in console host might not be good idea for production code. How are you going to run it? If it is each time when user logins, then what's the purpose of such a service - you can as well keep same code inside WPF application.
If it has to be Windows service, then console app will work, but again you need to think carefully what is the usage scenarios of your product - does it require central server or not.
I have a standalone web application (not an add-in) and I would like to access Project Server PWA oData from this web application without using the PWA username/password combination.
I can do this for SharePoint oData by registering my web app in Azure AD and configuring the application to require "Read" permissions from "Office 365 SharePoint Online"
If you are interested to do this for SharePoint data, see this article for details: https://www.itunity.com/article/integrating-angularjs-aad-office-365sharepoint-part-1-622
My problem is that I want to do the same for a Project Server, but can't see any relevant Project Online permission in Azure AD.
Has any one ever accessed Project Online using Azure AD tokens?
My 10 Minutes of Internet Research™ leads me to believe this isn't available but that it was a planned feature at one point. [see here]
Without knowing much (anything) about Project Server, this seems like a situation I've dealt with on AWS at work. We have a bunch of endpoints that are secured using IAM (AWS) credentials and we can't leave those creds lying around in our app (because that would be silly). Our solution is to generate access URLs server-side and hand them out, these typically will have a time limit and be restricted to a very specific action.
A quick search for Azure's equivalent to IAM tells me that you might be able to do something similar though I'm unsure it exists for Project Server.
That failing, you could always set up an intermediary micro-service that acts as proxy and has the username/password combo. We do stuff like this all the time with Lambda (AWS's serverless functions).
I have a desktop application in C# and i want to make that a window service. Is it possible to make that application as a windows service? Basically i want an app that shows gui when needed and upone minimizing it goes to system try, and it should also appear in services... For application just take an example that my application have a timer and multiline text field and its also interacting with database and its showing timely status from database so when i need to see it i can start GUI from system try?
Any kind of help would be highly appriciated. Thanks!
You will need to separate your applications. Windows Service and desktop. You will need to build API hooks into your Windows Service to allow communication from your desktop application and the service. I would recommend WCF for this.
In a nutshell, a Windows Service should not interact with the desktop. It will run in a separate session than the session you are logged into, even if you are logged in as the same account the service is running under.
It is not possible to show GUI in a windows service.
What you can do is:
a. Seperate client logic from server logic, the windows service will perform the server side operations and will expose a WCF API to the client , which will handle the GUI related issues.
b. Use an external tool like Service-O-Matic to control your winforms application as if it was a windows service. see:
http://www.kwakkelflap.com/service.html
I want to send simple data (geolocation data to be precise) from Windows Phone 7 application to a windows forms application and use it, as I'm a total beginner in this field I don't know which tools to use.
I searched about wcf services and tested this method but there's some issues: the data is sent from the phone application but isn't sent to the winforms application (guess something is missing)
If your know how to do this in a quick way, or have good tutorials I'll be thankful.
EDIT
I found this tutorial, it show how to connect directly wp7 application and desktop application without using sockets neither wcf service, I'm wondering if it is really works if the application isn't in localhost.
the like for the tutorial: wp7 tutorial
I had a similar problem and so I created a REST/JSON WCF service hosted in IIS with AppHarbor to provide the data. There's hundreds of ways to do it (Ruby/Heroku, etc..), but that particular one fits well within the Microsoft stack. I also needed to share route data and I used the WCF service to wrap the BingMaps services so that route computations are cached and shared. Considering that I had already created a local model, moving it out of my phone project into a service took less than a few hours (including the usual config hiccups, and forgetting to add the appharbor user to my bitbucket repo).
Consuming the service from WinForms (or any client) shouldn't be an issue as the service knows nothing about the client implementation.
Here's a tutorial from code project. REST WCF Service with JSON
I think you would need to implement some sort of server side solution which you could upload to on your Windows Phone and download from on your Windows Form application. This could be achieved using a WCF service which was connected to a server side database.
Another option would be to use sockets and communicate directly with your WinForms application. Check this tutorial on how to use basic sockets on WP7.