April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
1536 pages
44h 2m
English
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39 Windows Services
What’s In This Chapter?
- The architecture of a Windows Service
- Creating a Windows Service program
- Windows Services installation programs
- Windows Services control programs
- Troubleshooting Windows Services
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- Service Control
What Is a Windows Service?
Windows Services are programs that can be started automatically at boot time without the need for anyone to log on to the machine. If you need to have programs start up without user interaction or need to run under a different user than the interactive user, which can be a user with more privileges, you can create a Windows Service. Some examples could be a WCF host (if you can’t use Internet Information Services (IIS) for some reason), a program that caches data from a network server, or a program that reorganizes local disk data in the background.
This chapter starts with looking at the architecture of Windows Services, creates a Windows Service that hosts a networking server, and gives you information to start, monitor, control, and troubleshoot your Windows Services.
As previously mentioned, Windows Services are applications that can be automatically started when the operating system boots. These ...
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