Windows Services

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(); }