<div dir="ltr">Depending on how complex you want to get - the way I normally do this is:<div><br></div><div>First:</div><div><br></div><div>Start with a console application project.</div><div>Get your code working with info/error messages printing to the console.</div><div><br></div><div>Then:</div><div><br></div><div>Start a windows service application project.</div><div>Copy over and tweak the code to output messages to the event viewer.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally:</div><div>Deploy!</div><div><br></div><div>Like James said, online resources, examples, msdn, etc are the way to go. Don't be afraid to pick up libraries so that you don't have to reinvent the wheel. I highly recommend Chilkat's stuff: <a href="http://www.chilkatsoft.com/">http://www.chilkatsoft.com/</a> and their code samples are often a good place to start.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>B</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:34 AM, James Powell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jbpowell78@gmail.com" target="_blank">jbpowell78@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey Chris,<br><br>I was curious as to what language you were looking at using. I did basic win32 programming at my last job with some C# towards the end. For the most basic windows stuff I have found that online resources and examples, including MSDN, work for 90% of the coding we did. If you are looking for something more specific I can reach out to some of my friends still in that world for advice on good books.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>James<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 16:49 Chris Fowler <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com" target="_blank">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div>I'm working on some code to run as a service in Windows. I'll do this in VS 2013.</div><div><br></div><div>What I need to know is how to do things in Windows.</div><div><br></div><div>When I started programming in Linux I began with "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" - Stevens.</div><div>What author is the guru for Win32/64 and what is the equivalent book?</div><div><br></div><div>I think I have all books in the standard library for UNIX programmers.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div></div></div></div></div>______________________________<u></u><u></u>_________________<br>
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