Our very own FWDNUG Member, Walter Gameiro, will be presenting: Windows Services
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Windows Services
This presentation will be a combination of slides and code, in which I’ll discuss the theory and considerations of designing and writing a Windows Service.
We will design and write a sample service that will pick up images from a configurable folder and create thumbnails of configurable size into another configurable folder.
We’ll create a custom installer to pick up all the required settings at install time and discuss the “gotchas” of installers and how to get around them.
We’ll also create a “monitor console” application to allow the user to visually track what the service is doing and to be able to send in commands to the service.
Agenda:
- What is a Windows Service
- What can a Service be used for
- Considerations in Designing a Service
- What will it do
- How will it be triggered
- Timer, FileSystemWatcher, Custom Command, WCF, MSMQ, Email, Network Port, etc.
- Error Handling
- Logging
- Graceful recovery versus terminating service
- Testing/Unit Testing a Service
- Monitoring a Service
- File System, Database, Shared Memory, Remoting, WCF, Email alerts
- Deployment options and considerations
- InstallUtil vs Custom Installer
Speaker Bio
Walter Gameiro is a Software Architect with close to two decades of IT experience in several countries spanning three continents, who has dedicated his career to align and converge IT to accomplish Business needs.
After many years in corporate America and Europe, observing the disparity between the IT and Business worlds and perfecting his concepts and craft, finally in 2007 he founded Phi Consulting, a application development company, specializing in making Business simpler and easier.
He now uses his extensive experience to help customers achieve their business goals, by finding solutions that are easy to understand, easy to implement and easy to support.
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