title: Can Visual Basic run as a Windows Service?
body: <p>I am less than a week into my Visual Basic education.  I have downloaded Visual Studio 2008 and am teaching myself Visual Basic 2008 in hopes of landing a particular contract position.</p>
  
  <p>In the meantime, a friend of mine told me that it is not recommended to write a Windows Service with Visual Basic.  Is that true?  Could he be referring to some much older version than 2008?  Does the .NET version come into play?</p>
  
  <p>What is at stake is that the company that my friend works for is going to completely re-write a component of their flagship product at great cost and expense and simply abandon their existing VB code.  If the only hang-up is getting it to run as a service then they could save a lot of money if Visual Basic could, in fact, run reliably as a service.</p>