Watch The Service App

Chrome extension with REST Api service to view and manage local or remote windows services

Technologies

• ReactJS & ES6
• Webpack
• Babel
• .NET Core 2

Example

Configure & run Chrome extension

Clone or download this repo. Install gulp globally.

Navigate to an root folder, then run

npm install 

To build the project, run

gulp

Then you can navigate to chrome://extensions/ and specify the path to the folder WatchTheService\Chrome-extension\build folder.

You can also run

gulp watch

to develop with live-reload ability. Note that for eventPage you should manually do reload in chrome://extensions/ tab.

Configure & run REST Api as ConsoleApp

You should have VS2017 installed before development. To create self-contained application (without the need to have .NET Core runtime installd on target machine) you should run

dotnet publish -c release -r win10-x64

from WatchTheService\Rest-service-windows folder for win10 target machines. Then you can run WatchTheService\Rest-service-windows\Rest-Service\bin\Release\netcoreapp2.0\win10-x64\Rest-Service.exe and app will be working on port 5000. You can change port in Program.cs file.

Host app in IIS

Install .NET Core Windows Server Hosting bundle Then see page to configure IIS. Then run

dotnet publish -c release -r win10-x64

Create app in IIS and navigate to WatchTheService\Rest-service-windows\Rest-Service\bin\Release\netcoreapp2.0\win10-x64\publish folder. Set No managed code in .NET CLR version dropdows in pool settings for this app.