Stop Windows service while timer_event running

[bob biris]

I have a windows service using a timer to fire events at regular
intervals.

When the time elapsed the timer starts a process. This process can
take a long time and it seems that if I stop the service it also stops
the process. Is there a way to have the service to wait and stop when
the process is finished?

Thanks

Robert

 

[Mohamoss]

Hi Robert
any process that is intiated from your service will run with in the same
proccess space of your sevice and it will be terminated whenever your
service stops . you don't want that to happend, in this case you need to
disable the stopping of your service , no user can stop your service, you
can do so by settig the can stop property of your service to false CanStop.
Then you add a custom action to your service on which you will
wait for the other proccess " that was intiated by the timer" to finish
then you fire the close event from with in your code..... hope that would
help

 

[bob biris]

Thanks Mohamed,

What is the best way to fire the close event. DO you have an example of code?

Thanks