System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController 10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107

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.NET 8.0 .NET Standard 2.0 .NET Framework 4.6.2

This is a prerelease version of System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.

dotnet add package System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController --version 10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107

NuGet\Install-Package System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController -Version 10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107

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<PackageVersion Include="System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController" Version="10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107" />
                    

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<PackageReference Include="System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController" />
                    

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paket add System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController --version 10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107

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#r "nuget: System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController, 10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107"

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#:package System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController@10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107

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#addin nuget:?package=System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController&version=10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107&prerelease
                    

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#tool nuget:?package=System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController&version=10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107&prerelease
                    

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About

Provides the System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController API, which allows to connect to a Windows service, manipulate it, or get information about it. Not supported on other platforms.

Key Features

Retrieve information from Windows services
Connect to and manipulate Windows services (start, pause, stop or other operations)

How to Use

Retrieve Windows service information

using System.ServiceProcess;

// Loop through all installed Windows services and print the name, status and display name.
foreach (ServiceController serviceController in ServiceController.GetServices())
{
    Console.WriteLine("Name: " + serviceController.ServiceName);
    Console.WriteLine("Status: " + serviceController.Status.ToString());
    Console.WriteLine("Display name: " + serviceController.DisplayName);
}

// Loop through all installed device driver services
foreach (ServiceController serviceController in ServiceController.GetDevices())
{
    Console.WriteLine("Name: " + serviceController.ServiceName);
    Console.WriteLine("Status: " + serviceController.Status.ToString());
    Console.WriteLine("Display name: " + serviceController.DisplayName);
}

Manipulate a Windows service

using System.ServiceProcess;

ServiceController service = new("TestServiceName");
if (service.CanStop && service.Status != ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped && service.Status != ServiceControllerStatus.StopPending)
{
    service.Stop();
}

Main Types

The main types provided by this library are:

System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceControllerStatus
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceType

Additional Documentation

System.ServiceController API documentation

Feedback & Contributing

System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController is released as open source under the MIT license. Bug reports and contributions are welcome at the GitHub repository.

Product	Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
.NET	net5.0 was computed. net5.0-windows was computed. net6.0 was computed. net6.0-android was computed. net6.0-ios was computed. net6.0-maccatalyst was computed. net6.0-macos was computed. net6.0-tvos was computed. net6.0-windows was computed. net7.0 was computed. net7.0-android was computed. net7.0-ios was computed. net7.0-maccatalyst was computed. net7.0-macos was computed. net7.0-tvos was computed. net7.0-windows was computed. net8.0 is compatible. net8.0-android was computed. net8.0-browser was computed. net8.0-ios was computed. net8.0-maccatalyst was computed. net8.0-macos was computed. net8.0-tvos was computed. net8.0-windows was computed. net9.0 is compatible. net9.0-android was computed. net9.0-browser was computed. net9.0-ios was computed. net9.0-maccatalyst was computed. net9.0-macos was computed. net9.0-tvos was computed. net9.0-windows was computed. net10.0 is compatible. net10.0-android was computed. net10.0-browser was computed. net10.0-ios was computed. net10.0-maccatalyst was computed. net10.0-macos was computed. net10.0-tvos was computed. net10.0-windows was computed.
.NET Core	netcoreapp2.0 was computed. netcoreapp2.1 was computed. netcoreapp2.2 was computed. netcoreapp3.0 was computed. netcoreapp3.1 was computed.
.NET Standard	netstandard2.0 is compatible. netstandard2.1 was computed.
.NET Framework	net461 was computed. net462 is compatible. net463 was computed. net47 was computed. net471 was computed. net472 was computed. net48 was computed. net481 was computed.
MonoAndroid	monoandroid was computed.
MonoMac	monomac was computed.
MonoTouch	monotouch was computed.
Tizen	tizen40 was computed. tizen60 was computed.
Xamarin.iOS	xamarinios was computed.
Xamarin.Mac	xamarinmac was computed.
Xamarin.TVOS	xamarintvos was computed.
Xamarin.WatchOS	xamarinwatchos was computed.

Compatible target framework(s)

Included target framework(s) (in package)

Learn more about Target Frameworks and .NET Standard.

.NETFramework 4.6.2
- System.Diagnostics.EventLog (>= 10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107)
.NETStandard 2.0
- System.Diagnostics.EventLog (>= 10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107)
net10.0
- System.Diagnostics.EventLog (>= 10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107)
net8.0
- System.Diagnostics.EventLog (>= 10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107)
net9.0
- System.Diagnostics.EventLog (>= 10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107)

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Version	Downloads	Last Updated
10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107	9,498	10/14/2025
10.0.0-rc.1.25451.107	20,856	9/9/2025
10.0.0-preview.7.25380.108	10,500	8/12/2025
10.0.0-preview.6.25358.103	6,157	7/15/2025
10.0.0-preview.5.25277.114	5,445	6/6/2025
10.0.0-preview.4.25258.110	6,428	5/12/2025
10.0.0-preview.3.25171.5	9,471	4/10/2025
10.0.0-preview.2.25163.2	10,912	3/18/2025
10.0.0-preview.1.25080.5	7,817	2/25/2025
9.0.10	194,682	10/14/2025
9.0.9	624,720	9/9/2025
9.0.8	830,941	8/4/2025
9.0.7	578,377	7/8/2025
9.0.6	733,781	6/10/2025
9.0.5	685,803	5/13/2025
9.0.4	1,294,816	4/8/2025
9.0.3	1,035,366	3/11/2025
9.0.2	924,542	2/11/2025
9.0.1	1,305,757	1/14/2025
9.0.0	2,209,498	11/12/2024
9.0.0-rc.2.24473.5	39,771	10/8/2024
9.0.0-rc.1.24431.7	24,371	9/10/2024
9.0.0-preview.7.24405.7	12,105	8/13/2024
9.0.0-preview.6.24327.7	21,237	7/9/2024
9.0.0-preview.5.24306.7	8,305	6/11/2024
9.0.0-preview.4.24266.19	9,113	5/21/2024
9.0.0-preview.3.24172.9	15,265	4/11/2024
9.0.0-preview.2.24128.5	6,820	3/12/2024
9.0.0-preview.1.24080.9	38,910	2/13/2024
8.0.1	10,290,813	10/8/2024
8.0.0	27,938,224	11/14/2023
8.0.0-rc.2.23479.6	41,535	10/10/2023
8.0.0-rc.1.23419.4	34,635	9/12/2023
8.0.0-preview.7.23375.6	31,422	8/8/2023
8.0.0-preview.6.23329.7	23,727	7/11/2023
8.0.0-preview.5.23280.8	7,901	6/13/2023
8.0.0-preview.4.23259.5	17,989	5/16/2023
8.0.0-preview.3.23174.8	23,841	4/11/2023
8.0.0-preview.2.23128.3	25,019	3/14/2023
8.0.0-preview.1.23110.8	15,338	2/21/2023
7.0.1	8,308,187	6/13/2023
7.0.0	8,507,165	11/7/2022
7.0.0-rc.2.22472.3	16,377	10/11/2022
7.0.0-rc.1.22426.10	67,590	9/14/2022
7.0.0-preview.7.22375.6	13,351	8/9/2022
7.0.0-preview.6.22324.4	17,567	7/12/2022
7.0.0-preview.5.22301.12	5,195	6/14/2022
7.0.0-preview.4.22229.4	15,752	5/10/2022
7.0.0-preview.3.22175.4	15,190	4/13/2022
7.0.0-preview.2.22152.2	16,661	3/14/2022
7.0.0-preview.1.22076.8	5,083	2/17/2022
6.0.1	5,751,242	6/13/2023
6.0.0	32,127,962	11/8/2021
6.0.0-rc.2.21480.5	17,428	10/12/2021
6.0.0-rc.1.21451.13	12,420	9/14/2021
6.0.0-preview.7.21377.19	6,547	8/10/2021
6.0.0-preview.6.21352.12	10,926	7/14/2021
6.0.0-preview.5.21301.5	8,187	6/15/2021
6.0.0-preview.4.21253.7	23,801	5/24/2021
6.0.0-preview.3.21201.4	20,023	4/8/2021
6.0.0-preview.2.21154.6	12,785	3/11/2021
6.0.0-preview.1.21102.12	25,648	2/12/2021
5.0.0	36,774,917	11/9/2020
5.0.0-rc.2.20475.5	48,114	10/13/2020
5.0.0-rc.1.20451.14	8,883	9/14/2020
5.0.0-preview.8.20407.11	15,391	8/25/2020
5.0.0-preview.7.20364.11	22,245	7/21/2020
5.0.0-preview.6.20305.6	11,057	6/25/2020
5.0.0-preview.5.20278.1	6,321	6/10/2020
5.0.0-preview.4.20251.6	15,820	5/18/2020
5.0.0-preview.3.20214.6	44,203	4/23/2020
5.0.0-preview.2.20160.6	21,172	4/2/2020
5.0.0-preview.1.20120.5	4,093	3/16/2020
4.7.0	29,512,553	12/3/2019
4.7.0-preview3.19551.4	7,726	11/13/2019
4.7.0-preview2.19523.17	16,518	11/1/2019
4.7.0-preview1.19504.10	13,881	10/15/2019
4.6.0	4,412,503	9/23/2019
4.6.0-rc1.19456.4	6,802	9/16/2019
4.6.0-preview9.19421.4	9,640	9/4/2019
4.6.0-preview9.19416.11	795	9/4/2019
4.6.0-preview8.19405.3	13,747	8/13/2019
4.6.0-preview7.19362.9	16,134	7/23/2019
4.6.0-preview6.19303.8	45,755	6/12/2019
4.6.0-preview6.19264.9	806	9/4/2019
4.6.0-preview5.19224.8	31,520	5/6/2019
4.6.0-preview4.19212.13	4,206	4/18/2019
4.6.0-preview3.19128.7	11,653	3/6/2019
4.6.0-preview.19073.11	20,022	1/29/2019
4.6.0-preview.18571.3	17,322	12/3/2018
4.5.0	22,924,713	5/29/2018
4.5.0-rc1	57,321	5/6/2018
4.5.0-preview2-26406-04	27,413	4/10/2018
4.5.0-preview1-26216-02	36,330	2/26/2018
4.5.0-preview1-25914-04	311,926	11/15/2017
4.4.1	267,392	12/12/2017
4.4.0	808,511	8/11/2017
4.4.0-preview2-25405-01	2,856	6/27/2017
4.4.0-preview1-25305-02	6,007	5/9/2017
4.3.0	421,208	11/15/2016
4.3.0-preview1-24530-04	13,485	10/24/2016
4.1.0	11,529,023	6/27/2016
4.1.0-rc2-24027	3,344	5/16/2016
4.1.0-beta-23516	3,959	11/18/2015
4.1.0-beta-23409	2,602	10/15/2015
4.1.0-beta-23225	2,573	9/2/2015
4.0.0-beta-23123	3,498	7/29/2015
4.0.0-beta-23109	2,686	7/27/2015
4.0.0-beta-23019	2,832	6/30/2015
4.0.0-beta-22816	3,124	4/24/2015
4.0.0-beta-22605	3,251	2/13/2015
4.0.0-beta-22416	4,239	1/16/2015

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System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController 10.0.0-rc.2.25502.107

About

Key Features

How to Use

Retrieve Windows service information

Manipulate a Windows service

Main Types

Additional Documentation

Feedback & Contributing

.NETFramework 4.6.2

.NETStandard 2.0

net10.0

net8.0

net9.0

NuGet packages (193)

GitHub repositories (87)