Question

A common nuisance we have is having to switch this code below depending on whether we are testing locally or committing code for the build server.

    /// <summary>
    /// Main entry point to the application.
    /// </summary>
    public static void Main()
    {
        // Don't forget to uncomment this if committing (!)
        //var servicesToRun = new ServiceBase[] {new myservice()};
        //ServiceBase.Run(servicesToRun);

        // and re-comment this
        RunAsConsoleApp();

    }

It would be really useful if there was a way to test in the code to tell the output type i.e, and avoid all the ‘oh-no I committed and broke the build’ time wasting.

        if (IsConsoleApp)
        {
            Using(var host= new ServiceHost(typeof(myservice))
            {
               host.Open();
               etc....
            }
        }
        else
        {
            var servicesToRun = new ServiceBase[] {new myservice()};
            ServiceBase.Run(servicesToRun);
        }

Answer 1

Have you tried using the Environment.UserInteractive property in place of IsConsoleApp?