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Can DSData be run as a service, or work with a client that is a service?

April 26, 2017client dsdata run service

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Can DSData be run as a service, or work with a client that is a service?

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DSData is not a service application. If the OPC client talking to DSData is a service, it probably won’t talk (will get errors). A WinNT service typically runs regardless of the login. And a WinNT service typically has two separate components, a user interface and a runtime. DSData has its GUI and runtime unified in a single application. Changing this would be a huge (read prohibitively expensive) undertaking. We’ve tried a few of the “run any executable as an NT service” programs with little success. The unified interface kills it.