MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-320): Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C#™ .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework

Creating a Windows Service Application

Create and manipulate a Windows service: Write code that is executed when a Windows service is started or stopped.

In this section, you use the ServiceBase class to create a Windows service application. You'll learn

• About the ServiceBase class and its functionality.

• How the SCM interacts with a Windows service derived from the ServiceBase class.

• How to create a Windows service by deriving a class from the ServiceBase class.

The System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase Class

Programmatically, a Windows service is a class that derives its basic functionality from the ServiceBase class of the System.ServiceProcess namespace. The ServiceBase class provides its derived classes with some well-known methods and properties. ...