[Mono-dev] Mono/Windows Services

[Paul McEwan]

Thanks, the mono-service tool is working well so far

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Oskar Berggren <oskar.berggren at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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