.NET Windows Service needs to use STAThread

Question

I have created a Windows Service that will be calling out to some COM components, so I tagged [STAThread] to the Main function. However, when the timer fires, it reports MT

Answer 1

This reports that it is using STA. It is based on Will's suggestion and http://en.csharp-online.net/Creating_a_.NET_Windows_Service%E2%80%94Alternative_1:_Use_a_Separate_Thread

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.ServiceProcess;
using System.Threading;



namespace MyMonitorService
{
    internal class MyMonitorThreaded : ServiceBase
    {
        private Boolean bServiceStarted = false;
        private Thread threadWorker;

        private void WorkLoop ()
        {
            while (this.bServiceStarted)
            {
                EventLog.WriteEntry("MyMonitor", String.Format("Thread Model: {0}", Thread.CurrentThread.GetApartmentState().ToString()), EventLogEntryType.Information);

                if (this.bServiceStarted)
                    Thread.Sleep(new TimeSpan(0, 0, 10));
            }

            Thread.CurrentThread.Abort();
        }

        #region Service Start/Stop
        protected override void OnStart (String[] args)
        {
            this.threadWorker = new Thread(WorkLoop);
            this.threadWorker.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
            this.bServiceStarted = true;
            this.threadWorker.Start();
        }

        protected override void OnStop ()
        {
            this.bServiceStarted = false;
            this.threadWorker.Join(new TimeSpan(0, 2, 0));
        }
        #endregion
    }
}