Noticed for the same Visual Studio Project you can go:
Add new item > Windows Form
also Add new item > Windows Service
Can a single project have both Forms and Services? Installation of the assembly was successfully, but didn't have luck running it. I really wonder why Microsoft made it possible to add Forms and Services to the same project.
What version of VS? That sounds really weird. I thought that a service was a project in itself, because it gets compile to a single EXE. How can you then add a service to another project?
jmcilhinney, that's great. I was just dumbfounded with no clue what we can achieve from that feature/capability in Visual Studio.
So many questions...
how could a Windows Service (*.exe) and a Windows Form (*.exe) compile to a single exe?
Does this mean we can have Windows Forms that can act like a Windows Service (if needed)??
If not why did Microsoft add this ability in the first place??? I am sure you share those questions (and may be more too).
It seems like Having Service and a Windows Forms GUI in the same EXE is possible! Hav a look at DynDNS Updater. They have implemented thsi sort of design. http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/
I know a service is technically not supposed to have a user interface, correct? But...what if you happened to want to display a window when some event happens within the service. I think MSDE runs as a service but displays a tray icon to help manage itself. And the windows messenger service (the one for net send that everyone disables nowadays) displays a message box (not exactly a win form though). Point is, it's all just code so there's no reason to exclude certain code from an exe.
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