How to stop windows service from within

[Vlad]

I have a windows service that spawns several threads. One of those threads
may catch an exception that will require the whole service to shutdown. What
is the proper way to do it? I did some search on this subject, and the only
thing that I found is to create an instance of ServiceController and call
its Stop() method:

System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController sc = new
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController("my Service Name");
sc.Stop();

This does not seem to work when I do it from a thread created by my service.
I'd like to avoid using System.Environment.Exit() since I am looking for a
solution that will cause OnStop() method of my service to be invoked prior
to termination of my service.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Vlad.

[Mohamoss]

Hi Vlad
From within your service threads , you can't call a stop on the your
service . if you want to do some finalization code before you exit , why
don't you explicitly all the Ontsop handling function ( that is attached by
a delegate to the event ) . so you explicitly call this.onstop() before
calling System.Environment.Exit() . or you can just replicate that code
in another routine.
Mohamed Mahfouz
MEA Developer Support Center
ITworx on behalf of Microsoft EMEA GTSC

[Vlad]

> From within your service threads , you can't call a stop on the your

service.
My intuition failed me this time.
if you want to do some finalization code before you exit , why
don't you explicitly all the Ontsop handling function ( that is attached by a delegate to the event ) . so you explicitly call this.onstop() before
calling System.Environment.Exit(). or you can just replicate that code
in another routine.

Yep, that would work. Thanks

Vlad.