Below is code snippet for working with windows service. It helps to find status of service, start , stop and restart as required.

We need to pass in details of windows services name ( as shown i services.msc ) and machine name(should be in same network).


using System.ServiceProcess;


			internal string FindStatus(string service, string server)
        {
            var myService = new ServiceController(service, server);
            log.Info(String.Format("\tStatus of {0} service in {1} is {2}", service, server, myService.Status.ToString()));
            return myService.Status.ToString();
        }

        internal string StopService(string service, string server)
        {
            var myService = new ServiceController(service, server);
            if (myService.Status == ServiceControllerStatus.Running)
            {
                myService.Stop();
                myService.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped);
                log.Info(String.Format("\t{0} service Stopped in {1}. Current Status is {2}", service, server, myService.Status.ToString()));
            }
            return myService.Status.ToString();
        }

        internal string StartService(string service, string server)
        {
            var myService = new ServiceController(service, server);
            if (myService.Status == ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped)
            {
                myService.Start();
                myService.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Running);
                log.Info(String.Format("\t{0} service Started in {1}. Current Status is {2}", service, server, myService.Status.ToString()));
            }
            return myService.Status.ToString();
        }