Hi Peter,

Would you please give more detailed info on how do you detect the service
failed, I think you may check the return value of the SetServiceStatus call
while you start that service, how about that?

The C# compiler will not implicitly assign those members of the
Service_Status struct, I suggest you refer to the following platform SDK
documentation for reference, there has an example on how assign it in C++,
you may customize it to your own requirement:

Writing a ServiceMain Function
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/bas
e/writing_a_servicemain_function.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/bas
e/service_status_str.asp
SERVICE_STATUS

By the way, I think the reason you can not stop that service might be you
haven't set the CanStop property of your ServiceBase class, I suggest you
need to set it to true in its InitializeComponent() method, such as:

public ref class SimpleService: public System::ServiceProcess::ServiceBase
{
..

private:

   void InitializeComponent()
   {
       // Initialize the operating properties for the service.
       this->CanStop= true;
       this->CanPauseAndContinue = true;
       this->CanShutdown = true;
       this->ServiceName = "SimpleService";
       this->CanHandleSessionChangeEvent = true;
   }
..
}

Thanks!

Best regards,

Gary Chang
Microsoft Community Support
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