question about creating services

[gigglebyte]

Thought I would throw this out here because SOMEBODY has to know how to do it. What I need to do is run an application as a service so no windows open up. This program needs to run at startup and does background copying to a database but what is happening is people see the item in the task bar, open it and see a blank window and then close it because obviously it isn't doing anything I am thinking the easiest way would be to have it run as a service but for the life of me I can't find a way to create a new one. Any ideas?

 

[Mithent]

This should help:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1759&page=8

 

[gigglebyte]

thanks...this is actually for a customer and I was able to sort of workaround it as it turns out there is a command line option to run our product as a service... it works but it is kind of clunky so I sent him that as well.