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Roofus McDuffle
Roofus McDuffle

Reputation: 105

Is there a replacement for a Windows Service Application in Visual Studio Community 2017?

I want to make a windows service but I do not see a template or reference to anything like that in Visual Studio Community Edition 2017. Is there something else that replaced windows services, or has the nomenclature changed?

If not, is there a place I can download a windows service application template for c# .net 4.5? When I look online I do not see any templates for C# except "xUnit Test Project Template"

Where are the templates?

EDIT:

It turns out my installation did not complete. It was giving an error during installation so I had to delete some temporary files and then it finished installing, and now all of the templates including windows service are there.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2073

Answers (1)

Eric
Eric

Reputation: 1847

The most recent .NET based Windows NT Service development that I have seen had developed using TopShelf:

https://github.com/Topshelf/Topshelf

You create a Windows application and import the TopShelf libraries using Nuget.

Upvotes: 2

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