Proper way to exit my service

[noods]

What is the best way to exit my service? I want to stop my service on a few occasions if i encounter serious errors that will not allow me to proceed.


SHould I just set the state like:

g_ServiceStatus.dwCurrentState       = SERVICE_STOPPED;

and then return from ServiceMain()???


If i do this, then a messagebox pops up saying that the service started and then stopped.

[kuphryn]

Check out DeleteService().

Kuphryn

[noods]

I don't want to delete the service, I just want to exit it.

[muthuis]

The following may be useful.

In case you encounter errors..

• You might want to close all the waiting threads
• Set the service status to service stop pending
• do any other cleanup
• then return

Hope this is what u r looking for..

If not state the exact problem with ur error instance & sample code..

[Mick]

Originally posted by muthuis
The following may be useful.

In case you encounter errors..

• You might want to close all the waiting threads
• Set the service status to service stop pending
• do any other cleanup
• then return

Hope this is what u r looking for..

If not state the exact problem with ur error instance & sample code..

add:
Set the ServiceStatus(...) to stopped before the return from ServiceMain(...), otherwise the SC manager should still believe a stop is pending and denote that with a timeout message.