Question

I have created a windows service by using (Visual Studio 8) and installed it by using installutil.exe tool, however I am not getting proper result from it as I did the following code on service start method.

protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
    FileStream fs = new FileStream(@"e:\mcWindowsService.txt",
        FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write);
    StreamWriter m_streamWriter = new StreamWriter(fs);
    m_streamWriter.BaseStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.End);
    m_streamWriter.WriteLine("m ready buddy");
    m_streamWriter.Flush();
    m_streamWriter.Close();
}

Instead of creating file in E Drive it is showing Following Error when I am staring it !

The Test Service Installer service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they are not in use by other services or program.

Answer 1

Put the above code in Try-Catch block, write it to event log for any exceptions and investigate it. Also would be good to put them in separate thread to avoid any block.