Question

I am currently creating a Windows service. I’ve got everything finished and can deploy it to me test server. But when I try to start the service I get Error 1: Incorrect function. The weird thing is that it’s happening on a method call. The relevant code sections look like this:

public CacheManager(Logger logger, QueueSettings settings)
{
    _logger = logger;

    _logger.WriteLog("checkpoint #1.1");
    FillCache();
    _logger.WriteLog("checkpoint #1.2");
}

    private void FillCache()
    {
        _logger.WriteLog("checkpoint #1.1.1");
        Utils.RefreshSession(ref _session, _user, _password, _appServer);
        _logger.WriteLog("checkpoint #1.1.2");
        Parts = new PartCache(ref _session);
        _logger.WriteLog("checkpoint #1.1.3");
        Customers = new CustomerCache(ref _session);
        _logger.WriteLog("checkpoint #1.1.4");

        lastUpdate = DateTime.Now;
        _logger.WriteLog("checkpoint #1.1.5");
    }

According to the logs, I am reaching checkpoint #1.1 but not checkpoint #1.1.1. The error that is coming back is:

Could not start the JediProcessDocuments service on the local computer.

Error1: Incorrect function.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

So it turns out that the DLL containing the Session object (the variable _session in the code sample wasn’t deployed). I guess that windows services defer loading DLLs until the actual method that needs the DLL is called and doesn’t detect the non-presence until then.