Programming Windows® Services with Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008

Chapter 1. Writing Your First Service in Visual Basic 2008

In this chapter:

Generating the Project

Understanding the Wizard Code

Writing Our First Code

Making the Service Installable

Building, Installing, and Deploying

Summary

Note

Those of you who have already written services in previous versions of Visual Studio, such as Visual Studio 2005, can skip this chapter.

At some point, every developer faces the dilemma of how to implement a solution, or more important, how to architect a solution based on a given problem. To help resolve some of these factors, a developer has to be able to identify not only the issue or problem statement, but also the situational ...