Can a Windows service stop itself?

Question

I have a Windows service whose startup type is automatic, but I want to do some checks when the service starts, and have the service stop automatically if these checks fail.

How can I do this? My service is written in C#.

Answer 1

You can call the Stop method on your ServiceBase class. See msdn for more details.

Answer 2

You can use ServiceController and call .stop.

ServiceController sc= new ServiceController(service); sc.Stop();