Windows NT Service Applications

I would like assistance in creating a Windows/NT "Service Application" from within VB.

The application itself will probably be console based or perhaps even windowless, however, i need it to start as a service when NT is started rather than a user having to log on and have it running from the start menu (which would mean that the application would also terminate as soon as the user logged off).

I need to know if anybody can (a) help with the creation of the console application and/or (b) assist with how the application is then registered into the list of Services on Windows/NT.

I have read in the MSDN documentation that you cannot directly create service applications in VB because of the messaging differences, however i believe that there was an old 16 bit control available to overcome this problem: does anybody know of an updated 32bit version ?