How to stop a window service without user pop-up

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I created a windows service. In OnStart(), I check license first. If the license is not there, the service stops. I have tried several different ways to do that, such as throw an exception. It works. The only problem is that it pops up a dialog saying "service on local computer started then stopped. xxxxx" and user need to click OK to discharge the message dialogue.

Is there a way to stop the service w/o any front-end pop-ups?

Posted 8-Nov-10 10:15am

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David Ewen · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-08T12:56:00

You need to add a delay before stopping the service when it is starting. Hopefully you have most of the service functionality in another class and the ServiceBase is just a shell in which case you can have something like below.

C#

protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
    if(licenceIsValid)
    {
        _realService.Start();
    }
    else
    {
        ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(delegate
            {
                Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
                Stop();
            });
    }
}