Simple windows service tutorial

What is a Windows Service Enables you to create long-running executable applications that run in their own windows session. Can be automatically started when the computer boots, can be paused and restarted without any user interaction.

Easily installable by running the command line utility InstallUtil. Why a Windows Service? One of the most common requirements of some businesses is long-running scheduled jobs based on some time interval. For example: sending a newsletter everyday afternoon or send an email alert to the customer for every one hour.

So building a Windows Service could be one of the reliable solutions to do the goal that can do the required job in the behind the scenes without interfering others users on the same computer.

A New Project window will open. After you click "OK", the project will be created and you will see the design view of the service as shown in the following screen. Right-click the "Service1. In the code view, you can see two methods called OnStart and OnStop.

Right-click the TestWindowService project, add a new class and name it "Library. This class will be useful to create the methods that we require in the project. Now return to the Scheduler. Then you can see that there will be a new file called "ProjectInstaller.

Right-click the serviceProcessInstaller1, go to the properties window and change "Account" to "LocalSystem". Select the Test Windows Service and click "Start" to start the service. Go to the "TestWindowService. The article is greate, but its use of a goto to direct to a return instruction is bad coding.

Service not starting Member Apr I compiled the code it works fine. I installed the service it got installed but Task Manager showed its status as stopped.

When i right clicked and start the service i got an error that system cannot find the file specified. Re: Service not starting Jetteroh 8-May This Sample working well for me. Thank you Mohit for the clear and easy to understand sample code. It is very helpful to me. I can register and start the sample windows service in Windows 7 enterprise, however, the sample service could not start in windows server or windows server and generates an error, "Error The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

Any suggestion to how I can fix this error? I am using Visual studio Thank you! Re: error when trying to start the service nemesisv 3-Sep Try running the EXE on its own via command prompt and you will know the answer.

Re: error when trying to start the service Member Oct I am also facing the same issue. How did you resolve it? How stop and start action in code? Hi, I have a problem with stop and start service. Thanks for help. Please include the include's in the article Member Feb You will need to include those 2 to be able to compile. I'm pretty sure most people know this, but it should be included in the code example. Service Status anmol 6-Oct How do I get the status of service as "running" while debugging the program?

Application alan93 5-Sep Would this be added to an exe project? I am not understanding how this relates to a separate exe running as a service.

Thank you Sir! You helped me understand windows services. Your example is simple and easy to understand. Please keep up good work. Thanks and i have a question! It is simple NeverForever 3-Nov It is enough for demonstration. Service Installation Pulathisi Bhathiya 7-Aug Pulathisi Bhathiya.

Good one. Some examples of Windows services are auto-update of Windows, check emails, print documents, SQL Server agent, file and folder scanning and indexing and so on. If you open your Task Manager and click on the Services tab, you will see hundreds of services running on your machine. You can also see the statuses of these services. Some services are running, some have paused, and some have stopped.

You can start, stop, and pause a service from here by right click on the service. How to create a Windows service in C? Very important: Don't ever try to call any method before the call of InitializeComponent method.

LocalSystem; You also can add description and display service name optionally. Demo" ; Step 8 In this step, we will implement a timer, and code to call the service at a given time. We will create a text file and write the current time in the text file using the service. Generic; using System. ComponentModel; using System. Data; using System. Diagnostics; using System. IO; using System. Linq; using System. ServiceProcess; using System.