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Palace (2.5.17.0)

Generic windows services hoster, palace lauch any poco type with this caracteristics :

• Type name must terminate with "ServiceHost" suffix

Ex : SampleServiceHost

• Type must contains Initialize Method
• Type must contains Start Method
• Type must contains Stop Method

public class SampleServiceHost : IDisposable
{
	private System.Timers.Timer m_Timer;

   	public void Initialize()
	{
		System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("SampleService : Initialized");
	}

	public void Start()
	{
		m_Timer = new System.Timers.Timer();
		m_Timer.Interval = 2 * 1000;
		m_Timer.Elapsed += (s, arg) =>
		{
			System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(String.Format("SampleService : {0}", DateTime.Now));
		};
		m_Timer.Start();
	}

	public void Stop()
	{
		m_Timer.Stop();
	}

	public void Dispose()
	{
		m_Timer = null;
	}

}

Installation

Using NuGet :

PM> Install-Package Palace

Setup

Put json file (palace.json.config) on same directory of Palace.exe with this settings :

{
	"ServiceName": "Palace",
	"ServiceDisplayName": "Palace Services Hoster",
	"ServiceDescription": "Host for services",
	"ApiKey": null
}

Usage

• Reference this assembly with nuget on your Class Library Project.
• Configure build events

• Configure debug

• Run

Service Install / Uninstall

Lauch command line tool cmd in administrator mode in installation folder

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14371]
(c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\MyService> Palace.exe /install

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14371]
(c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\MyService> Palace.exe /uninstall

Palace run with "Network Service" account