Get Windows service start type?

Question

In the System.ServiceProcess namespace, is there any kind of enumeration or other direct member to determine a Service's Start Type (Auto, Delayed Auto, On Demand, Disabled) of a ServiceController?

The idea is to use an available member of that namespace (or other namespace) of the .NET framework class library to determine that thing, instead of looking into the OS registry or WMI for the service's start type, because I could do that, I'm only asking if the .NET framework exposes an easier way to determine that thing.

Pseudo-Code written in VB.Net but I could manage a C# approach too:

Public Shared Function GetStartType(ByVal svcName As String) As ServiceControllerStatus

    Dim svc As ServiceController = (From service As ServiceController In ServiceController.GetServices()
         Where service.ServiceName.Equals(svcName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
        ).FirstOrDefault

    If svc Is Nothing Then
        Throw New ArgumentException("Any service found with the specified name.", "svcName")
    Else
        Using svc
            ' Note that StartTypeEnumValue does not exists.
            Return svc.StartTypeEnumValue
        End Using
    End If

End Function

Answer 1

If possible, set your project target .NET framework to 4.6.1 or higher. The class ServiceController now has a property StartType

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.serviceprocess.servicecontroller(v=vs.110).aspx