windows-services

I have a service. I installed it a while ago. I need to do an update to the service. I went to the Add/Remove Programs and looked for my service, and it is not installed there. I looked at services.msc and it is there, stopped. I was able to start it and stop it. I ran a command prompt as administrator and ran sc delete [Service Name], and recieved "The specified service does not exist as an installed service." I did a sc query in the command prompt, and it is not returned. I right clicked on the installer, clicked on uninstall and recieved "This action is only valid for products that are

Can anyone explain why this finally block is not executed? I have read posts about when to expect finally block not be executed, but this seems to be another case. This code needs TopShelf and log4net. I am running .net 4.5 I guess it must be the Windows Service engine that kicks in on unhandled exceptions, but why is it running before the finally block has finished? using log4net; using log4net.Config; using System; using System.Threading; using Topshelf; namespace ConsoleApplication1 { public class HostMain { static void Main(string[] args) { HostFactory.Run(x => { x.Service<HostMain>(s => {

I'm writing a series of Windows services. I want them to fail if errors are thrown during startup (in OnStart() method). I had assumed that merely throwing an error in OnStart() would do this, but I'm finding that instead it "Starts" and presents me with a message stating "The service has started, but is inactive. Is this correct?" (Paraphrase). How do I handle the error so it actually fails to start the service? if you are running .NET 2.0 or higher, you can use ServiceBase.Stop to stop the service from OnStart. Otherwise call Stop from a new thread. ref [devnewsgroups] ( http://www

I'm writing a Windows Service using C# .NET 2005. How can I determine who the currently logged-on user is (if any)? Also is there a way to be notified when a user logs on? Alternatively, is there a way to know who has recently used the machine? I need to know the currently logged on user so I can cache some data for that user. Operating in a corporate environment there are thousands of potential users but it only makes sense to cache data for someone who uses that machine. UPDATE: This solution works well. Also see this pinvoke.net example which uses the extended structure to also retrieve