Summary:
An impressive feature of the .NET framework is the support and management features that .NET offers for Windows Services. The .NET framework provides an extensive set of class libraries for managing Windows Services, which go beyond the Services MMC snapin in Windows 2000 and allow us to manage low level device drivers programmatically, or start and stop multiple services at the same time. In this article, Jim Joy walks us through the anatomy of a windows service and build a Service Device Manager, a Win32 application giving us the ability to manage the services and lowlevel device drivers that are running on your Windows machine. |