I have written a class that wraps windows NT service code. The class allows you to overide a few methods for simplicity. class Service { public: Service(LPTSTR pApplicationName, LPTSTR pServiceName, LPTSTR pServiceDisplayName, LPTSTR pDependencies); static void WINAPI serviceMain(DWORD dwArgc, LPTSTR *lpszArgv); static void WINAPI serviceControlHandler(DWORD dwCtrlCode); static BOOL WINAPI debugControlHandler(DWORD dwCtrlType); void install(); void remove(); void debug(int argc, char ** argv); void dispatch(); virtual void init(); virtual void start(DWORD dwArgc, LPTSTR *lpszArgv); virtual void stop(); virtual void shutDown(); bool isDebug(); bool ReportStatusToSCMgr(DWORD dwCurrentState, DWORD dwWin32ExitCode, DWORD dwWaitHint); void AddToMessageLog(LPTSTR lpszMsg, WORD pEventType); LPTSTR GetLastErrorText(LPTSTR lpszBuf, DWORD dwSize); virtual ~Service(); private: LPTSTR applicationName; LPTSTR serviceName; LPTSTR serviceDisplayName; LPTSTR dependencies; SERVICE_STATUS ssStatus; // Current status of the service SERVICE_STATUS_HANDLE sshStatusHandle; DWORD dwErr; BOOL bDebug; TCHAR szErr[256]; // Static pointer to Service. Used for calling non static methods within // the call back methods. static Service *thisService; }; The sub class... class MyService: public Service { public: MyService(LPTSTR pApplicationName, LPTSTR pServiceName, LPTSTR pServiceDisplayName, LPTSTR pDependencies); void init(); void start(DWORD dwArgc, LPTSTR *lpszArgv); void stop(); void shutDown(); int getRegistryValues(); static DWORD WINAPI workerThread(LPVOID pBOVStubs); static DWORD WINAPI supportThread(LPVOID pStructure); void formatException(_com_error &pException, char *pExceptionMessage); void dumpToFile(char *pFileName, char *pMessage); ~MyService(); private: // Used to track the status of the service. int serviceStatus; int supportStatus; // Port to listen on for support; int supportPort; // Location of log files. char logsLocation[256]; // Financial institution ID for BOV. int finInstitutionID; // DB connection parameters. char dbServerName[256]; char dbName[256]; char dbServerUsername[256]; char dbServerPassword[256]; // Used for tracking the DB. bool dbConnected; int dbPollInterval; // DB related. _ConnectionPtr dbConnection; _RecordsetPtr rs; _CommandPtr cmd1; _ParameterPtr cmd1Param1; _ParameterPtr cmd1Param2; char dbConString[256]; // Server Connection parameters. char serverIPAddress[16]; int serverPort; int serverMaxTransactions; // Used to access static objects through the threads. HANDLE myMutex; // Number of threads open. long threadCount; // Static pointer to Service. Used for calling non static methods within // the call back methods. static MyService *thisMyService; }; Both the Service and the sub class have static pointers to themselves, because of the callbacks. Does this imply that they are both singleton. Do I really have to force the singleton patern on them by protecting the constructors? Or is there a better way to do this. The application is working fine though... Edited by - ANSI2000 on November 5, 2001 4:31:17 PM

No you canot create user data there is only one service. There can only be one service per application