How to make GUI wait for windows service?

Question

I wrote a windows service and a gui for it. Of course gui mainly depends on the service. Is there a way for gui to wait for the service? Sometimes I need to reload service config from the gui and restart the service.

I was thinking about 2 solutions: 1. using while and sleep to wait for service controller status to change (of course the simplest solution :P) 2. implementin INotifiPropertyChanged interface somewhere (this looks to complicated for this trivial problem).

I was wondering is there more elegant way of doing it? Is there an event that I am missing somewhere?

Answer 1

ServiceController has a method WaitForStatus where you pass it an argument of type ServiceControllerStatus. You can use it like this:

controller.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Running);

Answer 2

I'd probably spawn a seperate thead to simply poll and see when your service controller status has changed, when the change occurs kill this thread. Then simply re spawn the thread when you need to start re-poll

Darknight