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I have a requirement to create an ATL COM service which does some operation in background always. I want to know, can we create a service in Windows-8 Metro style mode ?
if so, how to create the service ? if not, what is the alternative solution for this ?
Please share your taught on this.
I think you can’t have a always-on service running in the background in Metro-style apps. The WinRT framework discourages the use of apps that are always running – to conserve battery and provide a good user-experience for the user. Only one (or two if you include snapped-mode) app can be active – the one in the foreground – all other apps which are in the background are suspended and don’t get any CPU time.
You can, however, use BackgroundTasks to do something periodically or when a system event occurs.