There was a great article in Visual Studio magazine (June 2008) by Ian Stirk in which he talks in detail about how to improve application performance by creating a utility that tells you which processes are being blocked. You can read the article at...

One of the common problems that we face in designing a Windows service is the ease of debugging it. I have followed a pattern to solve this problem where I can run a service from either command line or as a service. The steps below outline the...