Found this article.
http://coding.abel.nu/2012/05/debugging-a-windows-service-project/

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Greg Keogh
Sent: Monday, 22 July 2013 11:58 AM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Winforms\WIndows Service

 

I found some code a while back that allowed me to have an application that
could run as a service or a  winform interface.anyone done this before?

 

If you want the same executable image to be both a Windows Service or a
WinForms app, I've never tried to do that, but perhaps you can different
entry points. One public method will start the message loop, the other would
wire-up to SCM start and stop. It's a bit weird though as services and forms
usually do different things and are used in completely different ways.

 

A more common pattern is to simply write good structured code that
completely isolates the independent "work" and then wrap that in a WinForm
or a service (or a WCF service, or a console command, etc). If you factor
out the "work" you can wrap it in anything convenient.

 

Greg

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