Question

I wrote a windows service and a gui for it. Of course gui mainly depends on the service. Is there a way for gui to wait for the service? Sometimes I need to reload service config from the gui and restart the service.

I was thinking about 2 solutions:
1. using while and sleep to wait for service controller status to change (of course the simplest solution :P)
2. implementin INotifiPropertyChanged interface somewhere (this looks to complicated for this trivial problem).

I was wondering is there more elegant way of doing it? Is there an event that I am missing somewhere?

Answer 1

ServiceController has a method WaitForStatus where you pass it an argument of type ServiceControllerStatus. You can use it like this:

controller.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Running);