[Mono-list] RE: Writing daemons in C#

[Aschwin Wesselius]

Thanks guys. I will define "daemons" a bit more.   What I want is a program listening on a port, just like FTP or maybe an instant messaging bot based on Alice (www.alicebot.org). Since I don't know any C or C++ I would want to do it in C#, or else I have to forget the whole idea. So to start off, I need to know if it is possible and next, I would go to figure out how to write daemons in general.   There is actually no documentation to find on the internet about writing daemons or how to set them up to run in the background. Maybe I just look for the wrong keywords, or google is playing games with me = )   And yes, writing a service/daemon once might become easier to have it both on windows and on unix/linux.   So there is no "need" for C# doing daemons, but in my case it might become helpfull. C and C++ will still be very good languages for that, I know. But in general I was just curious how to built them and set them up, and I would do it in C#.   I hope it is more clear now.....   Regards, Aschwin