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SwiftHands
SwiftHands

Reputation: 253

When is a windows service considered "started"

We have a process that is executed as a windows service, This process serves as an interface server processing incoming messages, transforms them and sends them out to another interface.

it is a rather heavy process, it needs to load a lot of things into memory and that takes some time (few minutes). due to its nature, when we start it using its windows service, it remains in "starting" status for a very long time (sometimes more than 20 minutes) even when we can see the process already works and process messages just fine (going by its logs).

so the question is - when is a service considered "starting" and when is it considered "started"? based on what factors?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 135

Answers (1)

selami
selami

Reputation: 2498

Starting status finish when onstart is completed.

You should write starting code after onstart event.

puclic class Service1
{
        private Timer timer = new Timer();

        protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
        {
            this.timer.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(OnElapsedTime);
            this.timer.Interval = 1 * 1000; // 1 second
            this.timer.Enabled = true;
        }

        private void OnElapsedTime(object source, ElapsedEventArgs e)
        {
            this.timer.Enabled = false; // OnElapsedTime run only one time

            // Write your code
        }
 }

Upvotes: 2

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