How can a windows service programmatically restart itself?

.net windows windows-services windows-server-2003
Ron Harlev picture Ron Harlev · Oct 21, 2008 · Viewed 116.6k times · Source

I need to write robust code in .NET to enable a windows service (server 2003) to restart itself. What is the best way to so this? Is there some .NET API to do it?

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TheSoftwareJedi picture TheSoftwareJedi · Oct 21, 2008

Set the service to restart after failure (double click the service in the control panel and have a look around on those tabs - I forget the name of it). Then, anytime you want the service to restart, just call Environment.Exit(1) (or any non-zero return) and the OS will restart it for you.

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