Csharp/C Sharp/Development Class/Service

demonstrates service control

/*
Mastering Visual C# .NET
by Jason Price, Mike Gunderloy
Publisher: Sybex;
ISBN: 0782129110
*/

/*
  Example21_15.cs demonstrates service control
*/
using System;
using System.ServiceProcess;
public class Example21_15 
{
  public static void Main() 
  {
    // connect to the Alerter service
    ServiceController scAlerter = new ServiceController("Alerter");
    Console.WriteLine(scAlerter.DisplayName);
    Console.WriteLine(scAlerter.CanStop);
    scAlerter.Stop();
    Console.WriteLine("Service stopped");
    scAlerter.Start();
    Console.WriteLine("Service started");
  }
}