Is it good to have windows service or console application?
I have a tasks table in my db. I want to read data from this table and run tasks. Which one is better whether to have it as windows service or a console application running. The server on which this will be run will not be shutdown Dave New You most likely want to use a windows service. Benefits: You can control the user (and the rights associated with this user account) which starts the process An automatically started process means the desktop need to be on, not user logged, for the service to run A policy on failure can be defined (try to restart n times run a specific program if fails) A