Creating Service Controller was the first time I ever needed something more than VB Express and it marks my upgrade to VB Professional. Thankfully, managing Windows Services isn’t too much trouble in Visual Basic (though I did hit some walls trying to read the current status of a service).
Service Controller manages the Apple Mobile Device service and provides an easy-to-use GUI for stopping, starting, and restarting the service. It also has buttons for killing and starting the iTunes.exe process. I needed this application because, for whatever reason, every time a program put my iPhone into restore mode (iTunes during restores, WinPwn during Pwnage, iLiberty during jailbreaks) my computer would stop recognizing my iPhone until all programs using the service were killed and the service was restarted. I was tired of running “services.msc” every time I wanted to restart it so I threw this together.
As of right now it is a standalone .exe file and I don’t really think any more use can come from it (though, as always, I am open to ideas).
It’s also worth mentioning that the Service Controller icon (along with pretty much all of the images in my applications) was created by Allen of planet-iphones.com.
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