Call windows service from another windows service

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Is it possible to call windows service from another windows service in C#? I have created two windows services WindowsService1 and WindowsService2. I want to call WindowsService2 in WindowsService1, means call one windows service to another windows service. Please give me a solution.

Posted 6-Mar-11 20:28pm

GaneshKale22

Updated 1-Sep-11 2:07am

Prerak Patel

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2011-03-06T20:36:00

Solution 1

Yes. See the ServiceController class[^] - it contains an example.

Posted 6-Mar-11 20:36pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Mar-11 2:42am

The problem is that there is not such thing as "call a service".
Probably you answer it the only interpretation of this which makes certain sense, my 5.
Apparently, the services can interact using various IPC such as sockets, WCF, remoting, etc.
--SA

#realJSOP · Answer 2 · 2011-09-01T02:37:00

Solution 3

You don't "call" a service. You can control it (start, stop, pause, resume, and custom commands), but you can't call it.

As Griff has already stated, the ServiceController object is what you want to use.

Posted 1-Sep-11 2:37am

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Mehdi Gholam · Answer 3 · 2011-09-09T02:04:00

Solution 6

If you need to call the functionality within another service you have to setup a messaging system for that service, usually TCP connections.

Posted 9-Sep-11 2:04am

Mehdi Gholam