About

Provides the System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController API, which allows to connect to a Windows service, manipulate it, or get information about it. Not supported on other platforms.

Key Features

Retrieve information from Windows services
Connect to and manipulate Windows services (start, pause, stop or other operations)

How to Use

Retrieve Windows service information

using System.ServiceProcess;

// Loop through all installed Windows services and print the name, status and display name.
foreach (ServiceController serviceController in ServiceController.GetServices())
{
    Console.WriteLine("Name: " + serviceController.ServiceName);
    Console.WriteLine("Status: " + serviceController.Status.ToString());
    Console.WriteLine("Display name: " + serviceController.DisplayName);
}

// Loop through all installed device driver services
foreach (ServiceController serviceController in ServiceController.GetDevices())
{
    Console.WriteLine("Name: " + serviceController.ServiceName);
    Console.WriteLine("Status: " + serviceController.Status.ToString());
    Console.WriteLine("Display name: " + serviceController.DisplayName);
}

Manipulate a Windows service

using System.ServiceProcess;

ServiceController service = new("TestServiceName");
if (service.CanStop && service.Status != ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped && service.Status != ServiceControllerStatus.StopPending)
{
    service.Stop();
}

Main Types

The main types provided by this library are:

System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceControllerStatus
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceType

Additional Documentation

System.ServiceController API documentation

Feedback & Contributing

System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController is released as open source under the . Bug reports and contributions are welcome at .

dotnetframework/System.ServiceProcess.ServiceControllerv10.0.0

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