Threads?

[natejgardner]

The services walkthrough (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/windows-services/walkthrough-creating-a-windows-service-application-in-the-component-designer#adding-features-to-the-service) refers to this page for setting up threads within a service. However, it's not immediately obvious what the walkthrough was referring to on this page. Possibly due to an update in the documentation?

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[pkulikov]

The paragraph that references the API page is

You might want to perform tasks by using background worker threads instead of running all your work on the main thread. For an example of this, see the System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase reference page.

However, the walkthrough uses System.Timers.Timer that already fires events on the thread pool threads.

Moreover, the referenced API page doesn't seem to contain any relevant examples. @natejgardner it's a good catch.

I suggest to remove this paragraph at all.

By the way, this issue is related (even duplicate) of #6375

[JRAlexander]

Thanks for your feedback, @natejgardner! Good catch! @pkulikov, I agree. Thanks!

[JRAlexander]

@mairaw - I removed myself due to my new responsibilities. As this is marked P2 I moved it to the backlog