Hi Owe,
I found that in Onstart() you can not stop the service.
May be you can create a new thread and a timer, after some time(after
Onstart method) you use this thread to
stop the service.
Hope this helps.
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| Who said I don't use try/catch, even then it might be a decision for the
| service to give up control since it could be useless to continue - missing
| registry entries for instance.
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| Owe
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| "Frank Drebin" <no*****@imsickofspam.com> wrote in message
| news:rb**********************@newssvr28.news.prodi gy.com...
| > I don't mean to be a smart-guy, but ESPECIALLY for a service - you
should
| > have try/catch statements on EVERYTHING - so that this is impossible. A
| > service runs in the System space of memory and if it blows up could take
| > down the box - it needs to be much more stable than any user
| application...
| >
| > "Owe Armandt" <ow*@armandt.se> wrote in message
| > news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
| > > I have a service where I start up the worker thread from OnStart and
| also
| > > stop the thread from OnStop. My problem is if the service by itself
| > decides
| > > to stop because of some problem it cannot handle - how wouold it
stop, I
| > > mean stop the thread itself is not a problem but the service is still
| > > running.
| > >
| > >
| > > Owe
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| > >
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