Question

I have the windows service program which runs and sometime throw exception about system null reference. After my investigation, this is due to MySQL connection cannot establish due to MySql instance not up yet when startup computer. How to solve this problems???

thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can set in Windows the dependencies of each service.

You can go into Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services (or run ‘services.msc’ from the command line). By double clicking any of the services and going to the Dependencies tab you can see what each service relies on.

Your service relies on the MySql service, so MySql should be in the dependencies list for it.

You can add items to the dependencies, here is a description of how to do this:

https://serverfault.com/questions/24821/how-to-add-dependency-on-a-windows-service-after-the-service-is-installed