Question

Are there situations that we should use a windows service ?
I am building a client-server project (c#) and the server supposed to work alone without any user so someone advised me to use a windows service to run the server, is this right ? or there are a better solutions ?

Answer 1

In your situation I would use a service for the following reasons:

• You don’t need to have a session running. This is good for security, and also reduces overhead on the server.
• You get some of the managment commands built in for free
  • Start
  • Stop
  • Pause
  • Continue
• You can handle server events such as shutdown.