eXclusiveMinds » Windows Services http://eXclusiveMinds.com eXclusive resource for programmers, developers and designers Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:28:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to get list of windows services instelled on local computer in C# http://eXclusiveMinds.com/2009/12/02/how-to-get-list-of-windows-services-instelled-on-local-computer-in-c/ http://eXclusiveMinds.com/2009/12/02/how-to-get-list-of-windows-services-instelled-on-local-computer-in-c/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:57:46 +0000 eXclusiveMinds http://eXclusiveMinds.com/?p=132 Following example demonstrate about getting list of installed windows services on local computer.

We can get the list of all installed services using static method ServiceContro­ller.GetServi­ces.

ServiceController[]  svcList = ServiceController.GetServices();

Example:

Following code example checks for installed services on local computer. First It gets a list of services and finds a services with specified name.

public static bool GetAllServices(string svcName)
{
  ServiceController[] svcList = ServiceController.GetServices();
  foreach (ServiceController svc in svcList)
  {
    if (svc.ServiceName == svcName)
      return true;
  }
  return false;
}
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