Stop a Windows Service from code

[123qweasdzc]

Hello again .

I have another problem regarding Windows Services. I want that the Windows Service can stop it self after doing some work. How is this possible? I tried to call the OnStop method, but it does not work as I aspected...

Regards,

Ricardo

 

[ralphtrent]

Yes if you are using Windows XP or 2003 there is a command line tool called SC. (This is available on the windows 2000 Resource CD as well).

This tool will allow you to start/stop/query a service on a local or remote machine.

The syntax for the tool is

sc action service

example

sc stop mssqlserver

if your c# code you do this:

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
private static void ControlService()
{
	ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo();
	Process pro = new Process();
	psi.FileName = "SC.exe";
	psi.Arguments = Action + " " + ServiceName;
	psi.UseShellExecute = false;  
	pro.StartInfo = psi;
	pro.Start();
}

Give that a shot and see if that works. If you need to do this against a remote machine then psi.Arguments would look like this "\\MachineName start mssqlserver"

Ralph

 

[123qweasdzc]

Hello Ralph,

thanks for your tip but is precisely what I did yesterday. But I was wondering if it could be a way to stop the service without using SC or Net Stop. Is there any method we can call?

 

[B00gyeMan]

Let's assume the name of your service is MYSERVICE.
After doing some work, you can stop your service by executing:

ServiceController myServiceController = new ServiceController( "MYSERVICE");
myServiceController.Stop();

(Code is tripped of error checking and exception management).