📘 Windows Services

Always-Running Systems & Background Processing for Professional Developers

🗝️ About This Course?

Most developers learn how to build applications.

Very few learn how to build systems that never stop running.

Windows Services are the invisible backbone of real software systems: they run in the background, start automatically, recover from failures, and work without any user interface.

This course is designed to teach you how real production systems actually work.

You will not build screens. You will build always-running background services that power real businesses.

This course answers a critical question many developers never ask:

“How do real applications run 24/7 without anyone touching them?”

🔐 What Makes This Course Different?

🔹 Focuses on system-level programming, not UI
🔹 Teaches how Windows manages services internally
🔹 Explains service lifecycle, states, and recovery clearly
🔹 Covers real deployment, installation, and uninstallation
🔹 Shows how to debug services professionally
🔹 Includes real production-style Windows Service projects
🔹 Compares classic Windows Services vs modern Worker Services

This course teaches how software lives in production, not just how it runs on your machine.

📖 What You Will Learn?

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

🔹 Understand what Windows Services are and why they exist
🔹 Explain when and why to use a Windows Service
🔹 Build a Windows Service from scratch using C#
🔹 Install, start, stop, and manage services professionally
🔹 Handle service lifecycle events correctly (Start, Stop, Pause, Shutdown)
🔹 Debug Windows Services using Console Mode
🔹 Understand the Service Control Manager (SCM)
🔹 Work with service priorities and dependencies
🔹 Implement recovery and fault-handling strategies
🔹 Deploy and uninstall services safely
🔹 Distinguish between .NET Framework Services and modern Worker Services

🧱 How This Course Is Structured?

This course follows a professional system-development path:

1️⃣ Understanding Windows Services and real-world use cases
2️⃣ Building and installing your first service
3️⃣ Managing services manually and automatically
4️⃣ Service lifecycle, states, and events
5️⃣ Debugging and troubleshooting services
6️⃣ SCM, priorities, dependencies, and recovery
7️⃣ Deployment, updates, and uninstallation
8️⃣ Real projects that simulate production environments

Each lesson includes:

🔹 Clear explanation
🔹 Real-world scenarios
🔹 ❓ Quizzes
🔹 🏁 Summaries
🔹 Practical system-level thinking

🛠️ Projects in This Course

You will build real Windows Services, including:

🔹 File Monitoring Windows Service
🔹 Database Backup Windows Service

Each project includes:

🔹 Objectives
🔹 Requirements
🔹 Deliverables
🔹 Full professional solution

📌 These are real background systems, not demos.

🧑‍💻 Who This Course Is For?

✅ Developers who want to work on real systems
✅ Backend and desktop developers
✅ Developers aiming for enterprise-level skills
✅ Anyone who wants to understand production environments
✅ Developers who want to complete the roadmap properly

❌ Not for absolute beginners
❌ Not for UI-only learners

⚠️ What This Course Is NOT?

❌ Not a UI or frontend course
❌ Not a web or mobile framework course
❌ Not beginner-level programming
❌ Not theory without application

📌 This course is about systems that keep running when users are gone.

🎓 Certification & Learning Outcomes

🏅 Professional Certificate of Completion

Upon successful completion of this course, the learner will earn a

Certificate in Windows Services Development, verifying the ability to:

🔹 Build and manage Windows Services
🔹 Understand system-level application behavior
🔹 Handle service lifecycle and recovery
🔹 Deploy and maintain background services
🔹 Work with real production-grade Windows environments

🔐 This certification confirms system-level readiness, not just attendance.

🎓 Final Outcome

After completing this course, you will not just “know Windows Services”.

You will be able to:

🔹 Think like a system developer
🔹 Build software that runs 24/7
🔹 Understand how production systems behave
🔹 Create reliable background services
🔹 Finish the roadmap as a complete, system-aware developer

🧠 Applications stop.
🧠 Services keep running.

This course teaches you why and how.