Debugging Windows Services

Windows Services runs background.In developing time you may want to debug the service code.Some coders make this as creating a console application and running the code in it.That works of course but not a good solution....Alternatively we may use clr commands to debug a windows service itself. Here is the code block to accomplish this task....













#if (!DEBUG)

ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;



// More than one user WindowsService_tmp may run within the same process. To add

// another service to this process, change the following line to

// create a second service object. For example,

//

// ServicesToRun = new System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase[] {new MailService(), new MySecondUserService()};

//

ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[] { new Service1() };



ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);

#else

// Debug code: this allows the process to run as a non-service.

// It will kick off the service start point, but never kill it.

// Shut down the debugger to exit

Service1 service = new Service1();

service.OnStart(new string[] { ""});

// Put a breakpoint on the following line to always catch

// your service when it has finished its work

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(System.Threading.Timeout.Infinite);

#endif