windows service

Hi /prog/ rammers,

In your experience, what's the best language+framework for writing a windows service in?

The actual thing it will be doing is simple (making an http request every five minutes so as to keep track of the current external IP address of the network) but all the service-related stuff I have never done before. Any tips?

C/C++ would be the standard answer.

It could be done with Python if you want to try that out. The pywin32 module adds a whole host of spiffy stuff to try out.

Still, I'll get bashed if I don't say that C++ is the best choice.