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TrustyCoder
TrustyCoder

Reputation: 4789

gracefully stopping a windows service with multithreaded processing on a timer thread?

How to gracefully stop a windows service with multi-threaded processing on a timer thread? Is it possible to add some infinite loop logic in the OnStop method to postpone the service shutting down.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1611

Answers (2)

codingbadger
codingbadger

Reputation: 43974

You will probably need to use some sort of flag to indicate whether a Thread should stop or not. There is already a similar question on SO - here

Upvotes: 0

Jens Granlund
Jens Granlund

Reputation: 5070

You have to handle cancellation of the threads in your service in the OnStop() method.
Try some logic with ManualResetEvent or AutoResetEvent
You probably also have to stop your timer.

Upvotes: 1

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