Service restart itself?

[Matt]

Is there an 'easy' way to have a service stop and restart itself? I
currently have a seperate service running who's job is to watch the other
service and restart it if there is a problem... can I eliminate that one and
have the service restart itself?

Thanks,

Matt

 

[Guest]

Matt,
You can use ServiceController class to stop and start windows services.
Something like this

Imports System.ServiceProcess

Dim MyController As ServiceController = New ServiceController("ServiceName")

If MyController.CanStop Then
MyController.Stop()
End If

Val

 

[Kristian F. Thomsen]

Hi Matt,

You can configure your to restart itself if an error occurs.
You can do that from the services.msc - your service - Recovery.

Br.

Kristian F. Thomsen

 

[Matt]

Hi Kristian,

How does this work? Do I need to leave certain exceptions unhandled?

Unfortunately, one problem I am having is that the socket listener just
decides to not listen any longer, and throws no errors. I even have a timer
running and every few seconds it checks the state of the listener and the
state seems fine.

Thanks,

Matt