Restarting self in a Topshelf service

Question

I'm using Topshelf to host a Windows service. I am looking to get the hosted service to call to have itself restarted upon certain events. I was wondering how to achieve this?

Thanks, Ben

Answer 1

call Environment.Exit(1); when u want restart service

then in HostFactory add Enable ServiceRecovery

HostFactory.Run(configure =>
            {
                configure.Service((ServiceConfigurator<Service> service) =>
                {

                    service.WhenStarted(s => s.Start());
                    service.WhenStopped(s => s.Stop());
                });

                //Setup Account that window service use to run.  
                configure.RunAsNetworkService();
                configure.SetServiceName("ServiceName");
                configure.SetDisplayName("ServiceName");
                configure.SetDescription("Description");
                configure.StartAutomaticallyDelayed();
                configure.EnableServiceRecovery(recoveryOption =>
                {
                    recoveryOption.RestartService(0);
                });

            });

Answer 2

You can use the service manager if you know the service name to call restart. It may or may not work called from itself. This isn't something Topshelf exposes, so you're on your own to do it.