{"id":3024,"date":"2004-09-01T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/windows-services-starting-and-stopping-with-vb-net\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T02:13:11","slug":"windows-services-starting-and-stopping-with-vb-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/3024","title":{"rendered":"Windows Services &#8211; Starting and Stopping with VB.Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week I have been attempting to write a program that monitored a server, and restart the service as required. This is harder than it sounds. Only because searching the documentation takes so long. The answer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>    Imports System.serviceprocess<\/p>\n<p>Then we just need to use it. It is simlicity itself. <\/p>\n<p>        Dim junk As New ServiceController(&#8220;TabletService&#8221;)<br \/>\n<br \/>        If junk.Status = ServiceControllerStatus.Running Then<br \/>\n<br \/>            junk.Stop()<br \/>\n<br \/>        Else<br \/>\n<br \/>            junk.Start()<br \/>\n<br \/>        End If<\/p>\n<p>Some error checking is needed of course, but that is that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week I have been attempting to write a program that monitored a server, and restart the service as required. This is harder than it sounds. Only because searching the documentation takes so long. The answer&#8230; Imports System.serviceprocess &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/3024\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows Services &#8211; Starting and Stopping with VB.Net<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5cfmK-MM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}