Service question in c# .Net 2.0 framework

[Benj]

I am looking for a way to cleanly stop my service in the event of an error.
Within the worker thread, if an unrecoverable error is caught, I would like
to stop my service. Exiting the worker thread doesn't seem to do it. Using
the SCM to stop the service doesn't feel right. Am I missing something? My
service looks like (unrunnable example code below):

public partial class MyService : ServiceBase
{
protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
ListenerWorkerThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(PortListener));
ListenerWorkerThread.Start();
}
protected void PortListener()
{
try
{
//do some work
}
catch (Exception ex) //some really bad error
{
//Write it to the log and stop the service cleanly
}
}
}

[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi Ben,

In .NET you can use ServiceController class to start or stop a service.
ServiceController.Stop will stop this service and any services that are
dependent on this service. Please check the following link for more
information.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib....servicecontro
ller.stop.aspx

Kevin Yu
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[Benj]

Figured this out. Just needed:

this.stop();

[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Thanks for sharing your experience with all the people here. If you have
any questions, please feel free to post them in the community.

Kevin Yu
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