Programming Windows® Services with Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008

Summary

• Visual Basic 2008 provides easy access to file and system objects through several sets of classes such as System.IO and System.Text.

• Services or applications written to access these objects must be written with security in mind.

• Accessing file system objects and processing files on multiple threads requires a clear development strategy, otherwise locks and security access violations can occur. (Future chapters will focus on this issue.)

• Configuration files add extensibility to a service, as well as easy configuration.

• Avoid hard-coding values into your service or using resource files instead of configuration files.

• Application-specific configuration files can exist for any application that you code, including services, and can exist at the ...