Professional NT Services

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This book is an excellent look at the issues of writing a service and all the surrounding things you need to do to make it a good NT citizen. It particularly cleared up many of the security issues that have plagued service-writers in the past. The C++ classes for writing scalable services were excellent, as well. The COM chapter was great--exactly what was relevant for services. The examples were very detailed and real-world. Worth the money!

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Summary: Professional NT Services
Review: This book is my attempt to unify a wide range of material on a poorly documented topic--NT Service development. In the book, I discuss in detail how to design and implement good, scalable NT services (including COM services). I also provide a firm grounding in the security, configuration, and implementation issues for services, some of which can be quite intricate and difficult to decipher. Lastly, and most importantly, I provide several real-world examples based on what I call "usage patterns," or system design opportunities. These usage patterns show not only implementation details, but also illustrate the different ways that services can be effectively utilized in a software architecture.

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Summary: Indepth coverage of NT Services
Review: This for the longest time was the most indepth book on its subject matter. Anyone serious about developing professional looking NT Services should read this book. I also wrote a book on the same subject called Programming Windows Services.

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Summary: An NT developer's "must have".
Review: This is the kind of book you don't want to put down until you've read it cover to cover. And then you start writing your own services using some of the best example code (starter code, really) and base classes I've ever seen in a book. It's a complete 'how to' and 'why' reference manual, targeted at developers who know C++ and Windows but not Services.

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Summary: An NT developer's "must have".
Review: This is the kind of book you don't want to put down until you've read it cover to cover. And then you start writing your own services using some of the best example code (starter code, really) and base classes I've ever seen in a book. It's a complete 'how to' and 'why' reference manual, targeted at developers who know C++ and Windows but not Services.