Published:
05 Dec 2006
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Abstract
Windows Services are long running applications in Windows environments. This article discusses what Windows Services are and the ways to create, install and deploy them in .NET |
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by Joydip Kanjilal
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Windows Services are long running executable applications
that have no User Interface, can be configured to start automatically and can
also be started manually. Windows services are not meant to interact with
users and should not have a user interface. These applications are actually
controlled by the Service Control Manager. This article discusses Windows
Services and shows how we can implement a simple Windows Service in C#.
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User Comments
Title:
Mr
Name:
Gautam Sharma
Date:
2007-01-02 5:48:04 AM
Comment:
This article is very nice.I run my first windows service and installed sucessfully.
Thanks
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Good article
Name:
Harinath
Date:
2006-12-20 12:50:50 AM
Comment:
I found this article really useful. thanks for the same
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.NETPhreak
Name:
Dhaval Patel
Date:
2006-12-07 1:51:32 AM
Comment:
It should be pointed out that the call to the OnStart() method should return back to the SCM (Service Control Manager) within 30 seconds (this value can be altered in the registry, but it is not always feasible to do so in a production environment). The best idea is to encapsulate all your functionality into a separate .dll within a method, say for example RequestStart(), that is spawned in a new thread. All that you would need then is to instantiate that .dll in OnStart() and call RequestStart() - since RequestStart() has all its functionality in a new thread, the call to OnStart() will return immediately to the SCM. Additionally, if you make this thread a background thread, every time you stop your service, the thread will also die; this way you may not need to provide any functionality in your OnStop() method.
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Great one...
Name:
Sandeep Acharya
Date:
2006-12-05 9:47:00 PM
Comment:
I had no hands on windows services till now and very soon I am going to start working on this for some urgent requirement. And I must say that this article will help me a lot. I could able to develope a dummy one by refering to this article.
Thanks for publishing such useful articles.
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Making it Easier
Name:
Ambrose
Date:
2006-12-05 3:44:22 PM
Comment:
Might want to also consider things that raise the abstraction level:
http://aspalliance.com/749_The_Perfect_Service__Part_1
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