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I have a basic VB.Net application that gets data from some websites and then send them to a MS-SQL database automatically. I have developed it as a desktop application with a WinForm front end with logs writing to the WinForm continuously.
Now, is it possible to convert the Winform to a Windows services so that I do not need to keep it opening in front of my PC and watching the logs, instead, it runs quietly in the background and the data gets logged into the system log viewer?
Many thanks!
In Visual Studio choose File->New Project and in the Windows templates you’ll see Windows Service. Choose that option and then start migrating your code. If you kept most to all of your non-UI code in a separate DLL it will be easy because then you can have your service reference that library.