Programming Windows Services with Microsoft Visual Basic 2008

During more than 10 years at Microsoft, senior consultant Michael Gernaey has designed and written many large-scale application solutions for customers and focused on providing guidance to Visual Basic programmers on how to create robust, modern, service-oriented applications.

Part I Defining Windows Service 1 Writing Your First Service in Visual Basic 2008 2 Expanding Your Service with Threads 3 Services and Security Part II Creating Interactive Windows Services 4 Services and Polling 5 Processing and Notification 6 User Input, Desktop Interaction, and Feedback 7 Data Logging: Processing and Storing Data in SQL Server 2005 Part III Services That Support IT and the Business 8 Monitoring and Reporting with WMI 9 Talking to the Internet 10 Services That Listen 11 Advanced Security Considerations and Communications Part IV Advanced Windows Services Topics 12 Scheduling, Configuring, Administering, and Setting Up Windows Services 13 Debugging and Troubleshooting Windows Services 14 Adding Performance Counters Part V Appendices A Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIs) B Microsoft File Transfer Protocol Service C Microsoft SMTP Service