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  Debugging Windows Services
Subject:   why bother with the DLL?
Date:   2003-09-29 10:00:32
From:   anonymous2
While the previous poster makes a good point, I still think you gain a lot from being able to debug the code as a windows or console application.


But why bother splitting the code out to a DLL and creating a seperate test application to call it? It's pretty trivial to modify a service so that it'll run as a console app, and a lot less hassle. Just call your OnStart(), OnStop() etc from Main(). I generally just check the command line parameters for a value of "DEBUG", and run as a console app if it's present.
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  • why bother with the DLL?
    2003-12-09 15:14:34  anonymous2 [View]

    Can you explain how you change the service to a console app for debugging?

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