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What’s the best & fastest way to create an unmanaged Windows service with Visual C++ 2010?
Remark: From the lack of search results for this issue I’m suspecting this is either not recommended or trivial (a regular executable) – but I’m checking this for a colleague which insists not using the CLR.
I haven’t tried it in VS2010, but it used to be fairly simple to create a Windows Service using ATL. As far as I remember there was even a project template for doing this.
Here’s a CodeGuru article describing how to do it in VC++ 6.0.
Edit: Seems like it’s still supported in VS2010 since it’s still in the docs: ATL Services