Question

I have three windows services in one C# project. Using the installer class (it contains three service installers and one process installer) I was able to install all of my services and start them as three different windows services.

Now I’m trying to run those services under one service name (I would like to see one service name in service control manager, not three). What would be the best approach to do this?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You could just have one main service that spawns off the other executables as regular processes (see Process.Start(..)) which would not show up as windows services. That service would have to control the life time of the dependent processes (start them after the service was started /stop them before shutdown).