When run directly via node it brings up the windows prompt “xyz is requesting network access”.

However, when installed as a service it fails silently and reports success.

Any idea how to pre-approve an app for network activity or to have prompt the user on startup?

public static class HttpContextExtensions
{
public static Guid GetRequestTraceIdentifier(this HttpContext context)
{
var provider = (IServiceProvider)HttpContext.Current;
var workerRequest = (HttpWorkerRequest)provider.GetService(typeof(HttpWorkerRequest));
return workerRequest.RequestTraceIdentifier;
}
}

If I may contribute a minor enhancement, you can implement it this way :

listener
.Expect(a => a.BeginAcceptTcpClient(null, null))
.IgnoreArguments()
.Return(asyncResult)
.WhenCalled
(
invocation =>
{
var callbackIndex = invocation.Arguments.Length – 2;
var callback = invocation.Arguments[callbackIndex] as AsyncCallback;
callback(asyncResult);
}
);

You may even take it a step further and create an extension method for it that wraps all this up neatly, so that you can call it as follows :

listener
.Expect(a => a.BeginAcceptTcpClient(null, null))
.IgnoreArguments()
.ReturnAsync(asyncResult)

ReturnAsync is the extension method and can implement both the Return and WhenCalled logic; I didn’t put the code here because it’s so trivial anyone can figure it out.

Thanks again for a great article, and I hope my contribution helps!

Its also helped me lot!!