.Net Tips - Find out if your app is running as a service

Yan Cui

I help clients go faster for less using serverless technologies.

When you are developing an application to run as a service it’s nice to be able to also run it as a console app so you can easily debug, etc. On the rare occasion you might even want to find out if your app is running in a console window at runtime so you can set the title of the console window to display some useful debugging information, for example.

After some quick digging around, I found a relevant question on StackOverflow and the answer here, all you need is a simple method like this:

   1: public bool IsService()

   2: {

   3:     var entryAssembly = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly();

   4:     var entryPoint = entryAssembly.EntryPoint;

5:

   6:     // add a little error handling to make sure there is a BaseType

   7:     return

   8:         entryPoint.ReflectedType.BaseType != null &&

   9:         entryPoint.ReflectedType.BaseType.FullName == "System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase";

  10: }

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.Net Tips – Find out if your app is running as a service

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