From previous part, you’ve learned to develop a simple windows service on Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and how to create a setup wizard for install the service. But it wouldn’t be complete, if you don’t know how to debug a windows service while you’re developing a windows service. This part is about how to debug a windows service.
In this part, I’m going to create an installer project for install my windows service ‘MyService’. The installer wizard helps you to install service easily simply click next, next,.. and finish then you are done. With wizard installation, you can also uninstall the service from Add/Remove Program. If you prefer not to create setup wizard, you can install the service manually, too. You can find the detail about manually install the service at the bottom of this post.
In this part, I’ll show how to create a simple Windows Service project using VB.NET on Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. The example service will generate a message to application event log every 10 seconds.
What is Windows service? Windows Service is an application or a program that can run without needing any user interaction. It is useful in server environment that no need user to logged in on the system but the services are running. The status message of the service always write to event log.
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