Bibliography

Brain, Marshall. WIN32 SYSTEM SERVICES: THE HEART OF WINDOWS95 AND WINDOWS NT (SECOND EDITION), Upper Saddle River (NJ): Prentice Hall PTR, 1996.

An outstanding book. Clear explanations of many topics, with concise and complete source code examples. Everyone should have it. For better or worse, this is why I write procedural C++ the way I do.

Microsoft Corporation. MICROSOFT PLATFORM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT, 1985-1997.

Essential for any Win32 programming. Available for free (slowly) on the web. If you're a heavy user, you'll want the CD (it comes bundled with Visual C++, or as a stand-alone product if you're Jerry and you want to use Watcom or CodeWarrior or whatever).

Miller, Kevin. PROFESSIONAL NT SERVICES, Birmingham: WROX, 1998.

Good examples, covers many advanced service-related topics in addition to offering a solid and in-depth grounding in service architecture. Very Visual C++-centric, though (uses MFC and ATL).

Templeman, Julian. BEGINNING WINDOWS NT PROGRAMMING, Birmingham: WROX, 1998.

Not too much on services per se, but excellent discussions of subjects every service-author should know about: security, the event log, dynamic linking, structured exception handling, and so on. Also of note: it shows how to implement full-featured classes for everything worthwhile that it talks about, instead of just code snippets or bastardized C++.