Hello Keith,

>> Does the service need the "never-ending stuff" to intialize?

No, the service initializes, then goes into a never-ending loop. More precisely, it listenens for socket connections. So what I'm doing now is initializing in OnStart, then start a thread (also in OnStart). The thread's method is a never-ending loop that blocks on Socket.Listen, then continues once a connection is accepted, loops and waits for the next connection.

Is this the same idea as your suggestion?

Thanks,
Mike