How to start and stop windows services programmatically

Posted Date: 20 Apr 2005 Resource Type: Articles Category: .NET Framework

Posted By: Tony John Member Level: Gold
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Introduction

This short code snippet shows how you can start and stop windows services and also how to find the current status of any windows services.

System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController class

You can use the .NET class System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController to work with the windows services.

Include the namespace in the top of your class:

VB.NET


Imports System.ServiceProcess


using System.ServiceProcess;

Create an instance of the class:
VB.NET


dim controller as new ServiceController


ServiceController controller  = new ServiceController();

See the following code which gets the status of the IIS Admin service. Also, you can start and stop the service using this class.

VB.NET


controller.MachineName = "."
controller.ServiceName = "IISADMIN"
dim status as string = controller.Status.ToString

' Stop the service
controller.Stop()

' Start the service
controller.Start()


controller.MachineName = ".";
controller.ServiceName = "IISADMIN";
string status  = controller.Status.ToString();

// Stop the service
controller.Stop();

// Start the service
controller.Start();

Responses

Author: Yuri Sho 22 Apr 2008 Member Level: Bronze Points : 0

When I try happen this error:

System.InvalidOperationException = {"Cannot stop wuauserv service on computer '.'."}

InnerException = {"The service has not been started"}

System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception = {"The service has not been started"}

ErrorCode = -2147467259

NativeErrorCode = 1062

How to correct? ThX!

Author: Vikas Kumar Singh 14 May 2008 Member Level: Bronze Points : 2

Hi,

Check for the service's startup type if disable. Keep it either Automatic or Manual.

Regards,
Vikas Singh

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