Run multiple windows services under a single name

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Hello All,

I have two different windows services for different purpose. I am able to run them as two separate windows services.

service1
service2

My requirement is like to run two different windows services with a single service name[Mainservice]. Instead of running two different services in services.msc I need to have a single service running under services.msc.

Please let me know your suggestions.

Thanks,
Chris.

What I have tried:

I have tried with two separate services.

Posted 3-Aug-18 0:31am

sacraj

Updated 3-Aug-18 2:01am

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Richard MacCutchan 3-Aug-18 7:31am

You would most likely need to combine them into one application with a controller that runs each part as a separate thread.

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2018-08-03T02:01:00

The only way to do that would be to combine them into a single service application.

Like Richard said in his comment, you could run them independent of each other in separate threads.

But seriously, I'd split them into two services. If one service crashes or fails for some reason, you can stop just that service and leave the other one running.

If you combine them into a single service and one of your "sub services" crashes, you have to stop everything just to restart the one that failed.