Add a reference to System.ServiceProcess.dll. Then you can use the ServiceController class. // Check whether the Alerter service is started. ServiceController sc = new ServiceController(); sc.ServiceName = “Alerter”; Console.WriteLine(“The Alerter service status is currently set to {0}”, sc.Status.ToString()); if (sc.Status == ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped) { // Start the service if the current status is stopped. Console.WriteLine(“Starting the … Read more
The reason that the UnhandledException event on the current AppDomain does not fire is how services are executed. User sends a Start command from the Windows Service Control Manager (SCM). The command is received by the framework’s ServiceBase implementation and dispatched to the OnStart method. The OnStart method is called. Any exception which is thrown … Read more
The most important part of the article you linked, is here To add a custom action to the setup project 1.In Solution Explorer, right-click the setup project, point to View, then choose Custom Actions. The Custom Actions editor appears. 2.In the Custom Actions editor, right-click the Custom Actions node and choose Add Custom Action. The … Read more
I realize this post is old, but there’s no marked solution and I just wanted to throw in how I resolved this. The first Error 5: Access Denied error was resolved by giving permissions to the output directory to the NETWORK SERVICE account. The second Started and then stopped error seems to be a generic … Read more
You can use the services console, clicking on the left hand side and then selecting the “Connect to another computer” option in the Action menu. If you wish to use the command line only, you can use sc \\machine stop <service>
You need to open the Service.cs file in the designer, right click it and choose the menu-option “Add Installer”. It won’t install right out of the box… you need to create the installer class first. Some reference on service installer: How to: Add Installers to Your Service Application Quite old… but this is what I … Read more
a windows service is designed to run also when there are no users connected, it works like a server process always up and listening, or up and doing something, or idle. I think what you need is a client application which runs inside every logged user’ session and eventually does the job then, if needed, … Read more
You could use following P/Invoke calls to achieve this. Below sample works only with Admin Rights [DllImport(“wtsapi32.dll”, SetLastError = true)] static extern bool WTSLogoffSession(IntPtr hServer, int SessionId, bool bWait); [DllImport(“Wtsapi32.dll”)] static extern bool WTSQuerySessionInformation( System.IntPtr hServer, int sessionId, WTS_INFO_CLASS wtsInfoClass, out System.IntPtr ppBuffer, out uint pBytesReturned); [DllImport(“wtsapi32.dll”, SetLastError = true)] static extern IntPtr WTSOpenServer([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] String … Read more
You can install the service by adding this code (in the program file, Program.cs) to install itself when run from the commandline using specified parameters: /// <summary> /// The main entry point for the application. /// </summary> static void Main(string[] args) { if (System.Environment.UserInteractive) { if (args.Length > 0) { switch (args[0]) { case “-install”: … Read more
In short, services set to Automatic will start during the boot process, while services set to start as Delayed will start shortly after boot. Starting your service Delayed improves the boot performance of your server and has security benefits which are outlined in the article Adriano linked to in the comments. Update: “shortly after boot” … Read more