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POHow to properly stop single threaded windows service (onStop)?
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copied!<p>I have got a windows service written in VS 2010 / .NET 4.0.</p> <p>The service is following the scheme of the code snippet below: Using a timer, it executes some desired behaviour every couple of minutes. The requirement for the "desired behaviour" that's executed every couple of minutes has now grown into work that takes roughly 10 seconds.</p> <p>I only need a single thread in that service, there is no reason to create multiple threads, that's why I referred to the windows service as being single threaded.</p> <p>What I am worried about is that if somebody stops the service via the management console, it might be just during that 10 seconds of work the service is occasionally doing.</p> <p>I have done some reading on SO and how to stop a service, but am a bit lost. Sometimes WorkerThreads are created, sometimes ManualResetEvents are created, but up to now I couldn't fully grasp the best way forward for my windows service.</p> <p>I am thinking that I need to check during the 10 seconds execution some sort of flag and then only continue if that flag isn't telling me that I should stop. And in the onStop method I probably need to wait until the processing is properly finished.</p> <p>So much for the theory ;) , but what is my best way forward then, also considering the code snippet below?</p> <p>Thanks all!</p> <pre><code>Public Class MyService Public _timer As System.Timers.Timer Protected Overrides Sub OnStart(ByVal args() As String) _timer = New System.Timers.Timer() 'more timer settings AddHandler _timer.Elapsed, AddressOf _timer_Tick _timer.Start() End Sub Protected Overrides Sub OnStop() ' ???????????????????????? End Sub Private Sub _timer_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) SyncLock Me try _timer.Stop() catch ex as Exception finally _timer.Start() end try End SyncLock End Sub End Class </code></pre>

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