Comments on: Run Windows Service as a console program

By: DaRage

DaRage — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:50:43 +0000

I would never run multiple services in one process. This is against the service boundary definition and it’s a hard and fast rule. because if once service crashes it will kill the others too. I’ve seen it happen.

Too bad so much effort was spent to support multiple services in a process but I would stick with the simple initial version. simplicity is truth.

By: kiran

kiran — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:29:06 +0000

excellent

By: Kurt Harriger

Kurt Harriger — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:31:32 +0000

I’ve used this approach for awhile. But I have discovered one small problem with using UserInteractive flag. If you run the process via windows task scheduler UserInteractive will be false and it will try to start as a service and fail. Somehting to keep in mind anyway. If you find a solution to it I’d love to know what it is, but at the moment the best approach I’ve found is to use a commandline argument to override the UserInteractive flag.

By: ThomasK

ThomasK — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:14:43 +0000

I do not see this behaviour here. My application is a console app, but no matter how i start it (from cosole or SCM) i don’t see a new console window appear.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:40:23 +0000

The problem I see with this approach is that when you set the project’s output type to console, the console is always launched, even when you are running in service mode. Short of a way of changing output type dynamically or maybe hiding the console window, I don’t see a way around. When running on the server as a service, I don’t ever want to see the console popup.

By: dofbenoh

dofbenoh — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:18:26 +0000

i have process engine that contains different methods to be processed. I put the methods in my onstarts method of my windows service. It only execute the first method while ignore the rest. These methods are suppose to execute in sequence. Pls, help me out

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