Windows services with C#

[stardv]

I found some articles that describe how to create windows services with VB.Net. Is there any that shows how to do it with C#??

Thank you

[darwen]

You should be able to translate the VB.NET code into C# easily enough.

If not, here's a little snippet I wrote ages back to test services :

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Configuration.Install;
using System.ServiceProcess;
using System.ComponentModel;

class UserService : System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase
{
	public UserService()
	{
		this.AutoLog = true;
		this.CanStop = true;
		this.CanPauseAndContinue = false;
		this.ServiceName = "TestService";
	}

	protected override void OnStart(string [] args)
	{
	}

	protected override void OnStop()
	{
	}
}

class App
{
	[STAThread]
	static public void Main()
	{
		System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.Run(new UserService());
	}
}

[RunInstallerAttribute(true)]
public class UserServiceInstaller : Installer
{
	private ServiceInstaller serviceInstaller;
	private ServiceProcessInstaller processInstaller;

	public UserServiceInstaller()
	{
		serviceInstaller = new ServiceInstaller();
		processInstaller = new ServiceProcessInstaller();

		processInstaller.Account = ServiceAccount.LocalSystem;

		serviceInstaller.StartType = ServiceStartMode.Manual;
		serviceInstaller.ServiceName = "TestService";

		Installers.Add(serviceInstaller);
		Installers.Add(processInstaller);
	}
}

Compile this up and run

InstallUtil <executable with '.exe'>

to install it into the services list, and

InstallUtil /u <executable with '.exe'>

to uninstall.

Darwen.

[stardv]

Thanks again

You are very helpfull!

Wish you the best