How to start /stop a windows service through a Windows Form application

Question

I wish to start and stop another Windows Service application via my WIndows Form application. Ons tart of my application I wish to start the Windows service, and on application exit I wish to stop the service.

How can this be achieved?

Answer 1

You want to use the ServiceController class.

Initialize it with your service name, and call Start() and Stop() methods.

using System.ServiceProcess;
ServiceController sc = new ServiceController("My service name");
if (sc.Status == ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped)
{
  sc.Start();
}
//etc..