Difference between revisions of "Working with Windows Services in C Sharp"

Revision as of 18:32, 12 April 2015

Taken from : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/178147/how-can-i-verify-if-a-windows-service-is-running

using System.ServiceProcess;

ServiceController sc = new ServiceController(SERVICENAME);

switch (sc.Status) {

case ServiceControllerStatus.Running:

return "Running";

case ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped:

return "Stopped";

case ServiceControllerStatus.Paused:

return "Paused";

case ServiceControllerStatus.StopPending:

return "Stopping";

case ServiceControllerStatus.StartPending:

return "Starting";

default:

return "Status Changing";

}