A couple of Windows Services resources

I've had a couple of Windows Services snippets that I've been meaning to "rip-to-blog" for a while now...

Advanced Installer... a free, advanced MSI creation tool
http://www.advancedinstaller.com/

Code snippet to add a description to your Windows Services (note that, in Whidbey this is all exposed via the API)...

1Public Overrides Sub Install(ByVal stateSaver As System.Collections.IDictionary)

2	MyBase.Install(stateSaver)

3	

4	Dim serviceDescription As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("System\CurrentControlSet\Services\" & yourInstaller.ServiceName, True)

5	

6	serviceDescription.SetValue("Description", "This is the FileMonitorService.")

7	serviceDescription.Close()

8End Sub

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