Question

i have a windows service and i want to know when it is not working not every xx minutes or so but when it stopped

i have this method

 public string ServiceStatus()
          {
                switch (_service.Status)
                {
                     case ServiceControllerStatus.Running:
                          return "Running";
                     case ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped:
                          return "Stopped";
                     case ServiceControllerStatus.Paused:
                          return "Paused";
                     case ServiceControllerStatus.StopPending:
                          return "Stopping";
                     case ServiceControllerStatus.StartPending:
                          return "Starting";
                     default:
                          return "Status Changing";
                }

          }

sorry for my bad English

Answer 1

Capture the Stop, etc. events. For example, to know when you are being “stopped”:

protected override void OnStop()
{
  // Let yourself know the service has been stopped
}

Check out ServiceBase for more information.