Check for an installed/running service ?

Targets Windows
1

My app needs a certain service installed and running… Is there a way to check for it ?

thanks
Roman

2

Use a shell and call out to sc.exe.

[code]Dim theShell As New Shell

theShell.Mode = 0
theShell.Timeout = -1
theShell.Canonical = True

theShell.Execute "sc.exe query " + process_common_name[/code]

For example, to check for our BRU Server Agent in a Console app:

theShell.Execute "sc.exe query ""BRU Server Agent""" Print theShell.ReadAll
Returns:

SERVICE_NAME: BRU Server Agent TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS STATE : 4 RUNNING (STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,IGNORES_SHUTDOWN) WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0) SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0) CHECKPOINT : 0x0 WAIT_HINT : 0x0

3

thanks Tim!