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Creating Windows Services in C#

| Monday, June 14, 2010
Unlike standard Windows applications, services run in the background and don’t have a GUI, unless managed by another application that can be considered the controller. A service can perform almost anything – it can be a server, a web service host or a web hardware management layer. It has access to pretty much the same system features a regular application has, however it has to be managed in the code-behind only.

To create a Windows service, start Visual Studio, select the Visual C# projects section and select Windows Service as the project type:

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