Hosting a service in Windows Service

Windows Services are widely used on Windows operating systems for hosting applications that will perform some long-run or scheduled tasks in the background. Applications hosted via Windows Service can be running under a specific user account and can choose the startup mode (manually or automatically). As a popular service-application-hosting scenario, it is also quite common to deploy a WCF service as a Windows Service.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will use a typical .NET-based Windows Service to demonstrate how to host a WCF service in a Windows Service application. Let's go through the detailed steps:

  1. Create a Windows Service project.

    The first step is to create a new Windows Service project through the ...

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