Microsoft® Visual J#™ .NET (Core Reference)

Writing a Windows Service

You can use the classes in the System.ServiceProcess namespace to create new non–device driver services. (If you want to create a device driver service, you must resort to the Microsoft Windows Driver Development Kit [DDK].) When you develop a service, you must also create a service installer that can be used to configure the service and create the appropriate Windows Registry keys. In this section, we’ll create a simple service called CakeService. This service will act as a remoting server that hosts the CakeUtils.CakeInfo class that we developed in Chapter 11. The CakeInfo class exposes the FeedsHowMany method, and we’ll test the service by creating a remoting client that invokes this method in the CakeService service. ...