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Asked: 2026-05-27T01:21:41+00:00

I need to delay the 30 second timeout when restarting a .Net 1.1 service.

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I need to delay the 30 second timeout when restarting a .Net 1.1 service. Due to logistical reasons, I can not upgrade to .Net 2.0 to take advantage of the ServiceBase.RequestAdditionalTime() method.

One work-around is to call SetServiceStatus at the beginning of the code. However, for dependency purposes I need all of my code to execute before this is set.

I also looked into setting the registry key ServicesPipeTimeout, but would really prefer not to make a global change for all services since I don’t know what impact that might have.

Is there any equivalent to calling the ServiceBase.RequestAdditionalTime() method in .Net 1.1?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you look at the source code of the ServiceBase.RequestAdditionalTime method in .NET 2.0 (using a decompiler tool like ILSpy), you’ll see that it’s conceptually doing two things:

    1. Assigns the specified amount of milliseconds to the dwWaitHint field of the SERVICE_STATUS structure
    2. Invokes the SetServiceStatus Win32 function passing the new SERVICE_STATUS structure

    You could implement the same functionality in .NET 1.1 using P/Invoke to interact with the Win32 API.

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