Creating a Windows service
Some kinds of application needs to be running 24/7. Usually, they are network servers or data transfer/monitoring applications. In these cases, you probably start with a normal GUI or console application. However, when the systems start to be used in production, you are faced with a lot of problems related to Windows session termination, reboots, user rights, and other issues related to the server environment.
Getting ready
The way to go, in the previous scenario, is to develop a Windows service. In this recipe, we'll see how to write a good Windows service scaffold, and this can be the skeleton for many other services. So, feel free to use this code as a "template" to create all the services that you will need.
How it ...
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