Service control: start and stop : Service « Windows « C# / CSharp Tutorial

1. C# / CSharp Tutorial
2. Windows
3. Service

using System;
using System.ServiceProcess;

class MainClass
{
  public static void Main() 
  {
    ServiceController scAlerter = new ServiceController("Alerter");

    Console.WriteLine(scAlerter.DisplayName);
    Console.WriteLine(scAlerter.CanStop);

    scAlerter.Stop();
    Console.WriteLine("Service stopped");
    scAlerter.Start();
    Console.WriteLine("Service started");
  }
}

Alerter
False

Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot stop Alerter service on computer '.'.
---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The service has not been started
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.Stop()
   at MainClass.Main()