Windows service vs. IIS service

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Boris

I have to port a server from Unix to the Windows world and plan to use .NET.
To create a typical server daemon in Windows I thought to use Windows
services and even found some useful stuff in System.ServiceProcess in the
..NET framework. However I then read about Remoting and that it is somehow
possible to use IIS to publish services. There doesn't seem to be any useful
information in the .NET documentation what that means and how it is done. So
if you had to create a simple server which uses a proprietary protocol and
doesn't need any ASP.NET, HTML, XML, web services etc. would you use Windows
services or IIS services?

Thanks in advance,
Boris
 
Hi Boris,
if you are going to use a proprietary protocol, the way to go is windows
services. You don't need even remoting, just plain sockets.

Sunny
 
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