Question

I followed the instructions in the marked answer here to create a service. The service gets installed correctly. When I start the service after a while it throws a message
“Windows could not start the xxx service on Local Computer.

Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
“

After I click ok, its status stays at “Starting” for ever. When I checked the application and system logs, there were no errors.

When I check the SQL trace, the service is actually running correctly and doing what its supposed to do. So why does its status stay at “Starting” ?

Update:
This is the code in OnStart method

 protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
        {

            Loader loader = new Loader();
            loader.StartProcess();
        }

Update 2:

based on WiktorZychla’s comment I did this and it worked 🙂

protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
        {

            Loader loader = new Loader();

            ThreadStart threadDelegate = new ThreadStart(loader.StartProcess);
            Thread newThread = new Thread(threadDelegate);
            newThread.Start();

        }

Answer 1

Based on WiktorZychla’s comment this is what I did

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.ServiceProcess;
using System.Text;
using IndexLoader;
using System.Threading;

namespace myNameSpace
{
    public partial class LoaderService : ServiceBase
    {
        Thread newThread;
        public LoaderService()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
        {

            Loader loader = new Loader();

            ThreadStart threadDelegate = new ThreadStart(loader.StartProcess);
            newThread = new Thread(threadDelegate);
            newThread.Start();

        }

        protected override void OnStop()
        {
            if ((newThread != null) && (newThread.IsAlive))
            {


                Thread.Sleep(5000);
                newThread.Abort();

            }
        }
    }
}