Comments on: Run Windows Service as a console program

By: bryanbcook

bryanbcook — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:20:38 +0000

Just to follow up, here’s how I managed to get multiple services up and running in a single process:

http://stupiddumbguy.blogspot.com/2008/04/running-multiple-net-services-within.html

By: bryanbcook

bryanbcook — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:23:33 +0000

Gene/Jerry, I’ve also seen this problem. I’m actively researching it.

http://stupiddumbguy.blogspot.com

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:36:44 +0000

Gene, I have the same problem. Two services, both are instantiated, but only the first has its OnStart() called. Did you ever resolve this issue?

Thanks,
Jerry

By: einar

einar — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:26:28 +0000

Cool

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:01:50 +0000

in order to provide standard behavior for closing a console app (ctrl+c) the following code would be a bit cooler:

[code]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
DemoService service = new DemoService ();

if (Environment.UserInteractive)
{
service.OnStart(args);
Console.CancelKeyPress += new ConsoleCancelEventHandler(
delegate(object sender, ConsoleCancelEventArgs e)
{
service.OnStop();
});

/*
Console.WriteLine(”Press any key to stop program”);
Console.Read();
service.OnStop();
*/
}
else
{
ServiceBase.Run(service);
}
}
[/code]

By: einar

einar — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:38:57 +0000

I don’t know. If you call the ServiceBase.Run method you’re running them as services, not as console programs, and I would think that the ServiceBase should call OnStart in all of them. Maybe there is something in the documentation for ServiceBase?

By: Gene

Gene — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:48:13 +0000

I used 2 service objects in my process using the following code:

ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[] { new Service1(), new Service2() };

ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);

I added trace statements to the Service1 and Service2 constructors and also to the OnStart and OnStop methods for bothe services. What is strange is the although both constructors are called. Only the first OnStart() method (that of Service1 is called and not Service2.OnStart. Any idea why?

By: Sandy

Sandy — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:27:48 +0000

Thanks einar for your valuable reply.

By: einar

einar — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:19:41 +0000

You could make the service run as that user, this can be configured in the service properties. However, if you want the service to run as “system” and then start another process as another user, then you’ll have to do some more complicated stuff, something like: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfSystemSecurityPrincipalWindowsIdentityClassImpersonateTopic.asp

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:56:12 +0000

Nice!.. I have one difficulty….
I have written one service and executing another program from the service…
But now my problem is that I want to execute the program with local user
privilege and not as a “system”… Is it possible to archive this…

Thanks in advance..

Sandy