My service won't stop???

Re: My service won't stop???

I just added the code

ServiceControll er sc = new ServiceControll er(this.Service Name);
sc.Stop();

in my thread's shutdown logic and that did the trick. I don't think this is
the best way to do it though....
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> Okay, I assume I'm missing something obvious here. I have created a simple
> service in C# that on starting spawns a thread to do some processing. The
> service can be stopped with a "net stop" command of course, but under some
> circumstances the service will decide to terminate itself. My OnStart
> looks something like this:
>
> protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
> {
> serviceThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Ser viceThreadStart ));
> serviceThread .Start();
> }
>
> So this is simple enough. The problem is that if I use "net stop ..." to
> stop my service everything works fine. My thread detects the stop request
> and shuts itself down, and the service itself then terminates. However, if
> the service thread encounters some condition where it decides to shut
> itself down, the service keeps on running. I assume I have to call some
> method to tell the service control manager that the service is ending but
> I cannot find what method I need to user. I even tried inserting an
> Application.Exi t() call in the service shutdown code and that didn't do
> the trick. What do I need to call to get the service to terminate?
>
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