Restart Windows Service in c#

Question

I got a link from SO Cannot restart a Service where it says to restart the windows service.

The way it should restart the service is mentioned in the question as

public static void RestartService(string serviceName, int timeoutMilliseconds)
{
    ServiceController service = new ServiceController(serviceName);

    int millisec1 = Environment.TickCount;
    TimeSpan timeout = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(timeoutMilliseconds);
    if (!(service.Status.Equals(ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped) || service.Status.Equals(ServiceControllerStatus.StopPending)))
    {
        service.Stop();
        service.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped, timeout);
    }
    // count the rest of the timeout
    int millisec2 = Environment.TickCount;
    timeout = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(timeoutMilliseconds - (millisec2 - millisec1));

    if (!(service.Status.Equals(ServiceControllerStatus.Running) || service.Status.Equals(ServiceControllerStatus.StartPending)))
    {
        service.Start();
        service.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Running, timeout);
    }
}

But i am not sure here, as to where to write the code. I need to restart the windows service as soon as that is installed from my application

Let me know if any input is needed.

Thanks!

What do you mean with "installed from my application"? If you use Windows Installer, derive a class from Installer. If you install manually, call RestartService right after your installation code. However, the RestartService is invoked from inside your application. — Alexander Schmidt, Apr 06 '11 at 06:47
@sprinter252: When i install my windows (desktop) application, the service gets installed in services.msc. After that i wish to restart once. How to do that? — xorpower, Apr 06 '11 at 06:48
net start can be called from the command line, which is were I assume you install the service? — James Kyburz, Apr 06 '11 at 07:36
James is talking about this: http://ss64.com/nt/net_service.html — Jonas Van der Aa, Apr 06 '11 at 07:41
@James/@Jonas: I got what you mean.you mean to restart the service from external command. but i wish to that from C# — xorpower, Apr 06 '11 at 07:54

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 06 '11 at 08:15

I simply use net start and net stop to restart services. Example:

using System.Diagnostics;

public static void RestartService(string serviceName)
{
    var psi = new ProcessStartInfo("net.exe", "stop " + serviceName);
    psi.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
    psi.UseShellExecute = true;
    psi.WorkingDirectory = Environment.SystemDirectory;
    var st = Process.Start(psi);
    st.WaitForExit();

    psi = new ProcessStartInfo("net.exe", "start " + serviceName);
    psi.UseShellExecute = true;
    psi.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
    psi.WorkingDirectory = Environment.SystemDirectory;
    st = Process.Start(psi);
    st.WaitForExit();
}

can we start stop the service from with in same service ? – Thomas Oct 07 '14 at 19:44 — Thomas, Oct 07 '14 at 19:44

Restart Windows Service in c#

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