Windows Services in VB.NET: Demonstration

Category:

C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET

Type:

Applications

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Author:

Intelligent Solutions Inc.

Version Compatibility: Visual Basic.NET

More information:

This is a sample windows service developed in Visual Basic.NET. It reads text files in a folder and sends them as e-mail. Besides Window Service applications, this demo also illustrates sending e-mail, writing to the event log, and creating threads in VB.NET.

Please refer to the readme.txt file for more information.

Upgraded to work with VB.NET Version 1.0, 04/02/02.

Instructions: Click the link below to download the code. Select 'Save' from the IE popup dialog. Once downloaded, open the .zip file from your local drive using WinZip or a comparable program to view the contents.

Download simpleemailservice.zip