I am trying to have a windows service stop itself. I am currently
using the following code but I would like to find a way to stop the
service without having to shell out to a command prompt

Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";
p.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
p.StartInfo.Arguments = " /C sc stop \"" + this.serviceDisplayName +
"\"";
p.Start();
p.WaitForExit();

One of the drawbacks of the above code is that you have to know the
name under which the service is running in order to be able to stop it.

> I am trying to have a windows service stop itself. I am currently
> using the following code but I would like to find a way to stop the
> service without having to shell out to a command prompt

If it needs to stop itself, can't you just have this service call it's own
overridden Stop() method?
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>I am trying to have a windows service stop itself. I am currently
> using the following code but I would like to find a way to stop the
> service without having to shell out to a command prompt
>
> Process p = new Process();
> p.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";
> p.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
> p.StartInfo.Arguments = " /C sc stop \"" + this.serviceDisplayName +
> "\"";
> p.Start();
> p.WaitForExit();
>
> One of the drawbacks of the above code is that you have to know the
> name under which the service is running in order to be able to stop it.

So you are wanting to stop the name of a service when you don't know it's
name, is that correct?

You can use the ServiceController class however you will still need to know
the name of the service.

PS