Question

I am building a Windows Service in C#, and I have a method called OnStart, all of my bussiness logic is in a file named code.cs, how can I tell the OnStart method to call the stater method “starter” in code.cs?

/// <summary>
/// OnStart: Put startup code here
///  - Start threads, get inital data, etc.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="args"></param>
protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
    base.OnStart(args);
}

Answer 1

OnStart needs to return in order for Windows to know the service is started. You should launch a new Thread in OnStart that calls your starter. Something like:

protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
    Thread MyThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(MyThreadStarter));
    MyThread.Start();

    base.OnStart(args);
}

private void MyThreadStarter()
{
    MyClass obj = new MyClass();
    obj.Starter();
}

This assumes your current Starter method does not spawn it’s own thread. The key is to allow OnStart to return.