In my case it is the service which I created and installed as mentioned in my previous article i. Birthday Wish Scheduler in C. Start the service. Open your project in Visual Studio. Then choose processes from the Debug menu. The following windows will appear. Click on "Show system processes". See Remote Debugging. Debugging the OnStart method can be difficult because the Services Control Manager imposes a second limit on all attempts to start a service. For more information, see Troubleshooting: Debugging Windows Services.
To get meaningful information for debugging, the Visual Studio debugger needs to find symbol files for the binaries that are being debugged. If you are debugging a service that you built in Visual Studio, the symbol files. If you are debugging a service that you didn't build, you should first find symbols for the service and make sure they can be found by the debugger. See Specify Symbol. If you're debugging a system process or want to have symbols for system calls in your services, you should add the Microsoft Symbol Servers.
See Debugging Symbols. Install your service. For more information, see How to: Install and Uninstall Services. For more information, see How to: Start Services.
On the menu bar, choose Attach to Process from the Debug or Tools menu. In the Available Processes section, choose the process for your service, and then choose Attach. Access the Services Control Manager and manipulate your service, sending stop, pause, and continue commands to hit your breakpoints.
Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Warning This documentation isn't for the latest version of Windows Service. Create a Windows Service using BackgroundService. InstallLog The Commit phase completed successfully. The transacted install has completed. There is a process in Task Manager called "Restarter. That's it. Improve this question. John Saunders k 25 25 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.
Goober Goober It sounds like your first issue is to get the service running. Not sure if you need to do that with managed services or not.
It should appear in the services list. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Start ; Console. WriteLine "Press Enter to terminate ReadLine ; ServiceToRun. Improve this answer. Andrey Andrey That is nice, I used to is a define X and if X to control run as a service versus running as a console app, this is definitely more elegant and cleaner. I wish I could vote it up a few more times. Start method on my services so I added 1. Hope it's not something I'm missing out on — David.
The console doesn't show up, and Stop is triggered right away. Andrey I had to modify the project properties from Windows Application, to Console Application, then it worked.
You can do this by either adding a line to the startup of your program: Debugger. Launch ; after adding the using statement: using System. Sam Holder Sam Holder This is an amazing find for me I suggest that everyone use this but there is a catch. You can check for the parameter value in OnStart , for example with: if args! Launch ;. If you don't supply a 'start parameter' then your service will run without breaking to the debugger, so no need to ifdef.
I still get the error that I can not debug a windows service while using this method, even when changing my output to console application. ManualReset ; Console. InternalStart ; WaitHandle. Stephen 1, 2 2 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 36 36 bronze badges.
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