How to debug a windows service?

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Hi, everyone,

Thank you for helping in advance!

I need to debug a windows service but I don't know how.

I know that in VS: Menu Debug|Attach to the running service’s process, but after I attach to the process, my break point showed: the breakpoint will not currently be hit, no symbols have been loaded for this document.

I know I need to schedule a run of the service, but I don't know how to edit the time in the service's config file to be a few minutes. Or is there other way to do this task?

Thank you again for your time and help!

Best regards

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Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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It is better to test your code first on console application, it is very easy to test the logic and once you are fine you can put it under windows service.

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Hi Chris,

If you need to debug the service as its running and not in a console app, there's great info here:

[View:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/7a50syb3(v=VS.110).aspx:550:50]

Regarding getting something to run every few minutes, I like to use a Timer to run periodically, and when that elapses to do whatever you need to. To do that:

- Create Timer on your service.

- In the OnStart method

- initialize the timer and set the Interval to your repeat time

- Add a new event handler to the Elapsed event

- Set Enabled to true

- Finally, in your new Elapsed event handler you stop the timer, perform your logic, and re-enable it.

Hope this helps!

Aiden

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Thank you very much for your help!

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thank you very much for your reply! I will try that!

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