Question

I have a WCF running as a Windows service. I deployed it to a server (after quite a bit of banging my head against the keyboard).

Last issue: When making changes to the app.config (programname.exe.config in the service directory under program files), it obviously needs to be restarted.

Problem is this — when I make a change to the config file and try to restart the service, it gives me the “Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example…”. I have to completely uninstall the service, re-install again, modify the config file, and THEN start the service.

This seems incredibly tedious and unnecessary. I think I should be able to simply edit the config file and restart. Is there a known conflict or setting I should be looking out for?

Thanks!
-Jason

Answer 1

You could try this instead.

• Stop the service.
• Modify the config file in development.
• Re-deploy the project (say with Build -> Publish)
• Start the service.