Visual Studio 2008 issues

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If you're building a text service DLL, you almost certainly don't want to use Visual Studio 2008's compiler.  The problem is that Visual Studio 2008 uses a new C Runtime Library, and if you build your text service with Visual Studio, your text service likely won't load in all applications.  (Plus, you would have to redistribute the C Runtime Library.)

What to do instead?

Well, I would recommend installing the Vista (or XP) DDK and use the DDKWizard instead.  The DDK comes with its own C/C++ compiler that uses the C Runtime Library that ships with the OS (and won't cause problems with other applications), and the DDKWizard will let you use all of Visual Studio's awesome capabilities.