Running a windows service in a console

What is the best way to run a windows service as a console?

My current idea is to pass in an "/exe" argument and do the work of the windows service, then calling Application.Run().

The reason I'm doing this is to better debug a windows service and allow easier profiling of the code. The service is basically hosting .NET remoted objects.

From stackoverflow

• The Code Project site had a great article showing how to run a Windows Service in the Visual Studio debugger, no console app needed.

• Or

  C:\> MyWindowsService.exe /?
  MyWindowsService.exe /console
  MyWindowsService.exe -console
  

• This is how I do it. Give me the same .exe for console app and service. To start as a console app it needs a command line parameter of -c.

  private static ManualResetEvent m_daemonUp = new ManualResetEvent(false);
  
  [STAThread]
  static void Main(string[] args)
  {
      bool isConsole = false;
  
      if (args != null && args.Length == 1 && args[0].StartsWith("-c")) {
          isConsole = true;
          Console.WriteLine("Daemon starting");
  
          MyDaemon daemon = new MyDaemon();
  
          Thread daemonThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(daemon.Start));
          daemonThread.Start();
          m_daemonUp.WaitOne();
      }
      else {
          System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;
          ServicesToRun = new System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase[] { new Service() };
          System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);
      }
  }
  

  Michael Hedgpeth : I ended up with this: ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(state => service.DoWork()); new ManualResetEvent(false).WaitOne(); I've read that using the ThreadPool is almost always better than explicitly creating threads.

  sipwiz : Using the ThreadPool is a good idea. I would generally use the ThreadPool ahead of creating a new Thread as well. In the above example I did want more control of the thread for some reason I can't now recall.