Windows Application, Windows NT Service

Version C

Statistics of running processes

• Functionality:
  • Show statistics about all processes running on the system now and in the past
• Elements:
  • Windows application:
• Main window
  • ListView control with statistics of processes: name, filename, start time, end time (empty if process is still running), duration time (empty if process is still running)
  • 'Refresh' and 'Filter' buttons
• Filter window
  • TextBox to specify the name of process as a filter for the list
  • TextBox to specify the filename of process as a filter for the list
  • two DateTimePicker controls to show only processes which were running in the specified period
• Windows NT service (also called Windows XP service):
  • It gets list of all running processes and calls a method from the assembly to store it every 10 seconds
  • It doesn't store any data
• Assembly in Global Assembly Cache:
• It stores all data int the file
• Public methods:
  • to add information about currently running processes (called from the service)
  • to get list of processes according to specified filters (called from the application)
• Installer
  • It installs complete solution on user's system (all three elements)
Hints:
• Process class
  • Process.Id
  • Process.StartInfo
  • Process.GetProcesses()
• sn.exe
• [assembly:AssemblyKeyFileAttribute]
• System.Threading.Timer, System.Threading.Thread.Sleep()

• Approximate points:
  • windows application: 2.5
  • windows NT service: 2.5
  • assembly in GAC and using it: 4.0
  • installer: 1.0