Converting a console service application to a Windows service
Writing and debugging a Windows service can be difficult and slow. In the Creating a Windows service recipe in Chapter 1, Delphi Basics, we learned how to write and debug a Windows service from scratch, but in some cases you already have a console or VCL application that already does its job. However, it would be better if the console or VCL application could be recreated as a Windows service.
Getting ready
In this recipe, we'll take the WebBroker application created in the previous recipe as a console application and convert it to a full flagged Windows service. The same approach can be used for any type of service-like application that currently is not built as a service.
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