C#

leppie wrote:

But really, try to think about it. You start as a service, this happens before login, so where exactly is your UI suppose to go? See, it doesnt make sense. Rather start the app from start up.

All that said, here is probably the better idea:
1. Create a service.
2. Create a Windows Forms application, and add to start up folder or registry.
3. Use remoting to so the Winforms app can communicate with the service if necessary. BTW, you say you just wanna stop a service, so remoting will not even be needed (but somehow it seems you want to stop the service from within the service, not sure how that will work).

public bool TryGetCategory(string value, out string category)
{
    category = null;
    if (this.ContainsValue(value))
    {
        // Iterating through the key value pair to look for it's key
        foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> pair in this)
        {
            if (pair.Value == value)
            {
                // We found a match. So assigning category
                category = pair.Key;
                return true;
            }
        }
    }
    return false;
}

d@nish wrote:

DictionaryEntry class

N a v a n e e t h wrote:

It's a structure, not a class

d@nish wrote:

There is method GetKeyForItem in KeyedCollectionClass