Writing a Managed Windows Service with Visual C++

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Bottom Line

Windows services can perform any of a number of background tasks. In the past, Microsoft made it incredibly difficult to create a Windows service, but Visual Studio .NET changes all that. Now you can create Windows services with relative ease. The only caveat is that installing the service could try your patience—hopefully, Microsoft will provide a fix for an otherwise easy process.