Question

I have the VS2005 standard edition and MS says this:

Note: The Windows Service Application project templates and associated functionality are not available in the Standard Edition of Visual Basic and Visual C# .NET…

Is it possible to write a Windows Service application without upgrading my VS2005 Standard edition?

Answer 1

If you can cut and paste, an example is enough.

A simple service to periodically log the status of another service. The example does not include the ServiceInstaller class (to be called by the install utility when installing a service application), so installing is done manually.

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Diagnostics; using System.ServiceProcess; using System.Text; using System.Timers;  namespace SrvControl {     public partial class Service1 : ServiceBase     {         Timer mytimer;         public Service1()         {             InitializeComponent();         }          protected override void OnStart(string[] args)         {             if (mytimer == null)                 mytimer = new Timer(5 * 1000.0);             mytimer.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(mytimer_Elapsed);             mytimer.Start();         }          void mytimer_Elapsed(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)         {             var srv = new ServiceController('MYSERVICE');             AppLog.Log(string.Format('MYSERVICE Status {0}', srv.Status));         }          protected override void OnStop()         {             mytimer.Stop();         }     }     public static class AppLog     {         public static string z = 'SrvControl';         static EventLog Logger = null;         public static void Log(string message)         {             if (Logger == null)             {                 if (!(EventLog.SourceExists(z)))                     EventLog.CreateEventSource(z, 'Application');                  Logger = new EventLog('Application');                 Logger.Source = z;             }             Logger.WriteEntry(message, EventLogEntryType.Information);         }     } }