gracefully stopping a windows service with mutlithreaded processing on a timer thread?

Question

Hi, Any ideas on gracefully stopping a windows service with mutli-threaded processing on a timer thread? Is it possible to add some infinite loop logic in the OnStop method to postpone the service shutting down.

Answer 1

You have to handle cancellation of the threads in your service in the OnStop() method.
Try some logic with ManualResetEvent or AutoResetEvent
You probably also have to stop your timer.

Answer 2

You will probably need to use some sort of flag to indicate whether a Thread should stop or not. There is already a similar question on SO - here