Using the Automatic Recovery Features of Windows Services

Windows Services support the ability to automatically perform some defined action in response to a failure. The recovery action is specified in the Recovery tab of the service property page (which can be found in Settings->Control Panel->Administrative Tools -> Services). The Recovery tab allows you to define actions that can be performed on the 1st [...]

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Rethinking the C# using statement

I’ve typically used the C# using construct to wrap an instance on an object that has a short lifetime and requires a call to Dispose. The using keyword hides the need to call Dispose explicitly and avoids having to use a try-finally to ensure that Dispose is always called. One example of a class that [...]

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