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Month: May 2009

Retrieving a Windows Service’s Key Name Using It’s Process ID

May 9, 2009 by Garett Leave a Comment

I was recently asked by a friend how to retrieve the name of a running windows service from the Service Control Manager (SCM) database. He wanted to do this from .NET, using the process id of the service. I started to think of different ways that this could be accomplished and came up with a … [Read more…]

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About Me

May 8, 2009 by Garett 2 Comments

Welcome to my blog! My name is Garett Chang, and for my day job I work as a software developer in the New York City metro area. I’ve been in the field for a number of years now, doing mostly web development, since the days when you coded CGI in Perl and, believe it or … [Read more…]

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