[Mono-dev] Mono/Windows Services

[Oskar Berggren]

You can use the mono-service tool to start the application through the
ServiceBase class, as in Windows.

But ServiceBase or not, typically you would enter some sort of mainloop.
Most services will _wait_ for something to happen and not wake up until it
does. High-frequency timer-based polling should only be used as a last
resort - i.e. if there is no practically useful construct that you can wait
on. You can do timer-based if you have long sleep times (such as every hour
or less), or if the service's purpose is time-based data collection.

/Oskar




2015-06-11 21:49 GMT+01:00 Paul McEwan <paul.mcewan at atlium.com>:

> I have a Windows Service that I converted to Mono.  What's the recommended
> way to keep it running in the background like a Windows Service -- i.e. you
> start it and it keeps running until you stop it?
>
> Should you just put a loop in the main thread that sleeps and wakes up
> every second and performs work?
>
> Or is there a better way?
>
>
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