Stop Windows Service

[Peter Larsen [CPH]]

Hi,

What is the normal way to stop a servie from within the servie itself ??

BR
Peter

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Hi,

What is the normal way to stop a servie from within the servie itself ??

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[Arne Vajhøj]

What is the normal way to stop a servie from within the servie itself ??

The service extends ServiceBase and that has a Stop method.

I have never tried it, but I would expect it to
stop the service.

Arne

 

[Peter Larsen [CPH]]

Thanks for your comments.

I know about ServiceBase.Stop(), but what is best practice ?

What is if i want to stop with error (Environment.Exit() or throw an
exception) ?
Both ways, the service stops immediately without any cleanups (no go i would
say).

/Peter

 

[Jeff Johnson]

Thanks for your comments.

I know about ServiceBase.Stop(), but what is best practice ?

What is if i want to stop with error (Environment.Exit() or throw an
exception) ?
Both ways, the service stops immediately without any cleanups (no go i
would say).

So write a cleanup method whose final line calls Stop(). Stopping with an
error code is a bad idea in my opinion, like some throwback to DOS. I
recommend writing an error to the event log instead of an returning error
code.

 

[Colbert Zhou [MSFT]]

Hello Peter,

If you want to log the error in service exiting, you can consider calling
EventLog.WriteEntry to write an event log to the system logs.

Check this KB aritcles, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307024 and the
codes are applicable to the Windows Service application.

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