Creating a service on a pocket pc device

[Sinex]

Hi,
I have a pocket pc...running ppc 2003. I want to develop a service that
will run on the device.
The idea is to have something like a windows service running on the device
that will run in the back ground.
For example, how do I develop something like the windows update service? I
want this service to be running on the
device and periodically connect to a server and look for new updates....if
there are any updates then a list can be displayed
and if the user wishes, he should be able to download the updates.....

Any idea how to do such a thing with the compact framework? Can I use
aps.net web applications to do this?

Thanks,
Sinex

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

You cannot create a managed service.

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

In the real "service" sense, anyway. You could create a simple application
that never shows any UI and does whatever it does in the background, though.
I'd start out trying to create a forms-based application, but not showing
the main form, and see where that got me.

Paul T.