The service manager expects a service to respond to the start request in a relatively short period of time. I think it might be somewhere around 15-30 seconds. If you do a lot of stuff in your OnStart function you may be taking longer than that.
If you have a lot of code to run on service startup, you can run spawn another thread to run that code, or use an asynchronous call. There may be a way to notify the service manager before OnStart returns, I haven't tried that path. > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: Monday, May 06, 2002 10:27 PM > Posted To: DOTNET > Conversation: [DOTNET] C# Windows Service - Cant Start? > Subject: [DOTNET] C# Windows Service - Cant Start? > > I've got a windows service that I've built fairly stock-standard, it also > has its own installer, and I've built a separate install project... > > The installer works well enough, and the service appears in the list of > services - however when you issue a start it eventually dumps with a > message > stating that the server did not respond in a timely fashion. If I then > look > in the list of processes, my service is there, I can attach to it in the > VS.Net debugger and I can see that it's working away (it's a server with a > number of worker threads it spawns for doing the actual work...). > > Now at first I figured perhaps the code is never returning from the > OnStart(...) method - so I commented out all start/stop etc. code in the > service class, basically leaving it at the same state as it was when the > project was created - however I still have the same problem of the service > start request timing out.... What could be causing this and can anyone > suggest how I could fix it? > > Cheers, > > - Alex > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
