How can a Windows Service determine its ServiceName?

Question

I\'ve looked and couldn\'t find what should be a simple question:

How can a Windows Service determine the ServiceName for which it was started?

Answer 1

I had a chicken-and-egg problem where I needed to know the service location before completing Service.Run() (Service could be part of a client or server installation, installer named them appropriately, and I needed to detect which it was on startup)

I relied on the registry to get me the name.

public String IdentifySelfFromRegistry()
{
    String executionPath = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location;
    Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey services = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(
            @"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services");
    if (services != null)
    {
        foreach(String subkey in services.GetSubKeyNames())
        {
            if (executionPath.Equals(ServicePathFromServiceKey(services.OpenSubKey(subkey))))
                return subkey;
        }
    }
    return String.Empty;
}

protected static String ServicePathFromServiceKey(Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey serviceKey)
{
    if (serviceKey != null)
    {
        String exec = serviceKey.GetValue(ServicePathEntry) as String;
        if (exec != null)
            return exec.Trim('\"');
    }
    return String.Empty;
}