Tutorials, Snippets on Windows Services

[Fat Tony]

Hey!

Im new to VB.NET and Windows Programming and I had to write a programm which recieves and writes sms to a persistent storage.

Now I have to implement this program as a windows service and as I have now experience in service programming or windows application programming at all it would be very nice if anybody could post a few links to quickstart tutorials or some code snippets.

I'm using .NET 2.0, VS 2005 and VB 2005

Thanks!

Jakob

 

[vis781]

A quick google revealed these....


http://www.devguru.com/features/tutorials/windows_srv/windows_service.asp

http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/UploadFile/mahesh/Winservvb11172005233242PM/Winservvb.aspx?ArticleID=ae8440fd-dee1-42e3-ad30-66d38e232c35

 

[Fat Tony]

Thanks for the links. I have pasted the code of devguro.com into vs 2005 and compiled it.
Then I installed the service in cmd.exe by using the command installutil.exe <path> and I get the message that everything works correct, but I can't see my service in the Service Explorer. Why is that? Do I have to restart my computer?

I'm using Win XP SP 2

Thanks!

Fat Tony

 

[vis781]

You could try it, not done a windows service before but i doubt that re-starting your pc will have any effect. My guess would be that in didn't install correctly. Try an uninstall, then a re-install.