Problems Starting a VB windows Service

[Shane Lowenberger via .NET 247]

Hi All,

I created a Windows Service in Visual Basic.NET and am having troubles. My Service installs fine, but when I start I get two exceptions thrown in the Event Log and the service stops. Here they are:

1: System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
at ServiceName.OnStart(String[] args)

This one happens before the service starts, then I get

2. Service cannot be started. System.InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid.
at ServiceName.OnStart(String[] args)
at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.ServiceQueuedMainCallback(Object state)

Any ideas, I'm beating my head against the wall.

Thanks in advance,

 

[Sameh Ahmed]

Dear Shane
regarding the first problem I believe this is not related to the fact that
this is a service.
this seems like trying to access an array outside it's boundaries.
Example
dim arr(30)
arr(40) = 3
this would give the same error.
Regards
Sameh

Hi All,

I created a Windows Service in Visual Basic.NET and am having troubles.

My Service installs fine, but when I start I get two exceptions thrown in
the Event Log and the service stops. Here they are:

1: System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
at ServiceName.OnStart(String[] args)

This one happens before the service starts, then I get

2. Service cannot be started. System.InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid.
at ServiceName.OnStart(String[] args)
at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.ServiceQueuedMainCallback(Object state)

Any ideas, I'm beating my head against the wall.

Thanks in advance,