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Writing Windows NT Services in VB

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by rakeshkanojia 2 views

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I'am well verse with VB. Now I want to start converting some of my VB code as NT Service so that it can run all the time.

Can someone help me on how to go about writing service for NT.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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by wjlarue

First, the bad news - Microsoft doesn?t recommend or support this. They explain why in the following KB article:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q175/9/48.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=NT%20service&rnk=4&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=VBB

But if you really wanted try you can use the following link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnolectrl/html/msdn_ntsrvocx.asp

, and yes it's from Microsoft (they still don't recommend it), which has an article and code sample that uses the Ntsrv.ocx control.

And last, you could look into these people: http://www.activeplus.com. Specifically their ServerMill Control. I personally have never used these people for anything, but hey, they seem to offer a solution.

Hope this help, if not, maybe a better understanding. Any further questions feel free to contact me.

Jeff LaRue
Raging Technologies

P.S. ? I too wanted to do what your wanting to do, but I needed more stability (Microsoft?s normal guarantee) since over half my apps were considered mission critical.

by rakeshkanojia

Thanks Jeff.

Stability with Microsoft?s ????? The only solution for Unstability they have is to Upgrade :-)

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