windows-services

How can I restart a windows service programmatically in .NET? Also, I need to do an operation when the service restart is completed. Frederik Gheysels Take a look at the ServiceController class. To perform the operation that needs to be done when the service is restarted, I guess you should do that in the Service yourself (if it is your own service). If you do not have access to the source of the service, then perhaps you can use the WaitForStatus method of the ServiceController . This article uses the ServiceController class to write methods for Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Windows

My question is essentially the same as the following one but the answer did not help me. .NET Windows Service - multiple services in one project Essentially, I have 3 services, lets say "Service1", "Service" and "Service3". ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun; ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[] { new Service1("Service1"), new Service2("Service2"), new Service3("Service3") }; ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun); I also have installer classes with corresponding serviceInstaller.ServiceName = "ServiceX" for each of these services. When I use installutil, i do see all 3 services on the Service manager. However,

Is there a way to globally handle exceptions for a Windows Service? Something similar to the following in Windows Forms applications: Application.ThreadException += new ThreadExceptionEventHandler(new ThreadExceptionHandler().ApplicationThreadException); Here is some pretty robust code we advise people to use when they're implementing http://exceptioneer.com in their Windows Applications. namespace YourNamespace { static class Program { [STAThread] static void Main() { AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += CurrentDomain_UnhandledException; Application.ThreadException += new System

I have recently inherited a couple of applications that run as windows services, and I am having problems providing a gui (accessible from a context menu in system tray) with both of them. The reason why we need a gui for a windows service is in order to be able to re-configure the behaviour of the windows service(s) without resorting to stopping/re-starting. My code works fine in debug mode, and I get the context menu come up, and everything behaves correctly etc. When I install the service via "installutil" using a named account (i.e., not Local System Account), the service runs fine, but