Hi Jan,

Thanks for your posting. As for the get ServiceName prorblem you mentioned,
here is some of my understandings:

When you build a NTService via .net. In its intaller , it will hardcode a
ServcieName(unique) and a DisplayName(MAYBE NOT unique)

such as
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this.serviceInstaller1.DisplayName = "MyNTService1\'s DisplayName";
this.serviceInstaller1.ServiceName = "MyNTService1";
this.serviceInstaller1.StartType =
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceStartMode.Automatic;
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and this ServiceName will identify this serviceInstance under the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ registry and also in
the system's SCM.
Also, the ServiceBase.DisplayName and ServiceController.ServiceName
property also means this value.

And the DisplayName is the just the User Friendly DisplayName in the SCM.
(the ServiceController.DisplayName means this value)

So is the "ServiceName" you want to get  means the "DisplayName" ? If so ,
we can use the ServiceController.GetServices() to get all the
localmachine's installed services and get the running service via its
ServiceName property, then you can use the ServiceController.DisplayName to
access the user friendly name.

For example:

#NOTE that I've aslo try using the System.Environment.CommandLine to get
the commandline arguments of the service process, but it just contains the
exe file's path , not the ServiceName we want, you can also try it to
verify this.
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protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
        StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory+
"\\" + "log.txt",true,System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);

try
{
               
    sw.WriteLine(" ");
    sw.WriteLine("------start event--------");
    sw.WriteLine("ServiceName: " + this.ServiceName);
           
    ServiceController[] services = ServiceController.GetServices();
    foreach(ServiceController sc  in services)
    {
        if(sc.ServiceName == this.ServiceName)
        {
            sw.WriteLine("DisplayName: " + sc.DisplayName);
            sw.WriteLine("ServiceType: " + sc.ServiceType.ToString());
        }
    }
               
    sw.WriteLine("Start at: " + DateTime.Now.ToString("YYYY-MM-DD   
HH:MM:SSfffffzzz"));

    sw.WriteLine("CommandLine: " + System.Environment.CommandLine);

}
finally
{
    sw.Close();
}
       
}
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Hope this helps.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support