Stand alone application vs Windows service (Priority support)

[lfeliz]

For production I try to always deploy as as a service since the application auto starts with the machine. I do not want to login and start the application. I have also accidentally closed when running as an app. As far as performance, should be almost identical since its the same code. Performance differences may exist when comparing Service to ISAPI and http.sys . I recently had one app that would install as a service, but the ssl access failed so I had to resort to running it as an application. In my case the machine was a virtual machine, so I had it auto login and then set the the app to start up.

Hope that helps.