Windows-based Applications, Components, and Services

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This section discusses Windows-based applications, components of various kinds, XML Web services, Windows services, console applications, and 64-bit applications.

In This Section

  • Creating Windows-Based Applications
    Provides links to information about how to create traditional Windows-based applications.

  • Components in Visual Studio
    Provides links to information about component programming in the .NET Framework.

  • Services in Managed Code
    Provides links to information about how to create Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) applications in Visual Studio and how to work with Web Services created in earlier versions of Visual Studio.

  • Windows Service Applications
    Provides links to information about how to create an application that is installed as a service. You can create services, install them, and start, stop, and otherwise control their behavior.

  • Building Console Applications
    Discusses how to use the Console class to read characters from and write characters to the console.

  • 64-bit Applications
    Discusses issues related to developing applications that will run on a Windows 64-bit operating system.