What is the proper way for a Windows service to fail?

Question

I have inherited a Windows service written in C#. Under rare conditions it fails badly. However, it isn\'t at all clear how to fail well. Ross Bennett states the problem e

Answer 1

After some testing I found the following works in cases where you calling Stop might cause other issues:

        ExitCode = 1;
        Environment.Exit(1);

Just calling Environment.Exit doesn't make the SCM do fault handling, but first setting the ServiceBase ExitCode does.