C# - Services Start up Order

Author

Services Start up Order

Dinesh Eswaran

2004-03-28, 10:28 pm

Hi,

I need to make sure that my windows service (written using C#/.NET
classes) starts up *AFTER* IIS.

How can I go about doing this?

Thanks
Dinesh

noah

2004-03-28, 10:28 pm

Hi,
The main way to do this is with the ServicesDependedOn property of
either the serviceInstaller or serviceController. If you do a search
on "ServicesDependedOn property" in the MSDN library, there's a great
example of exactly what you're looking for. I'm pretty sure that your
service will still start, but only after IIS.

Another option if you *need* more fine grained control of your
service (i.e. it can start, but not send requests to IIS) would be to
create a new System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController("IIS Service Name
goes here") and then monitor it (i.e. check status) before the section
that interacts with IIS.

Hope this helps,
Noah

> Hi,
>
> I need to make sure that my windows service (written using C#/.NET
> classes) starts up *AFTER* IIS.
>
> How can I go about doing this?
>
> Thanks
> Dinesh

Dinesh Eswaran

2004-03-28, 10:28 pm

"James P" <james-no-spam-no-reply@poovathummoottil.com> wrote in message news:<c28aij$bvg$1@news01.intel.com>...[color=darkred]
> Set the ServiceInstaller.ServicesDependedOn of your service installer.
>
> James
> "Dinesh Eswaran" <dinesh336@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:727ca83c.0403040720.716bb0ff@posting.google.com...

Thanks all for the help! It works fine. I have one more question
though - can I say
"Try to start the dependencies, but if they dont start its fine, you
start up anyway"

Basically I also want to try and start up mySQL service, but even if
there is no mySQL service installed, my service should start up
anyway.

Appreciate any inputs

Dinesh

Sponsored Links