Adventures of a Geek various programming related articles

windows service + control panel applet

As mentioned in one of my previous posts, I started writing a windows service for backing up data. Starting from a tutorial on windows services I found on the internet, I managed to create a simple service that creates and archive at a specified period of time. All the necessary variables are saved in the registry (source files, destination folder, archive name and type, the data of the last update, the time period). The service reads the values from the registry and creates the archive if the specified amount of time passed.

I also need to create a control panel applet for making the settings for the service (updating the registry values). I've found a good video tutorial on making control panel applets here. It's a small applet that updates the date and time on your computer.