Manipulating Windows Services

[Kasracer]

Well I'm still a beginner at VB .NET but I figure this code would probably help people out.

If you want to set a service to automatic, manual or disable, you have to modify the registry. This Sub I created will take in the service's name (Not the display name) and either automatic, manual or disable and then write the appropriate registry value.

Public Sub ServiceControl(ByVal ServiceName As String, ByVal StartupType As String)
            Dim regKey As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey
            Dim systm As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey
            Dim curr As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey
            Dim serv As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey
            Dim mess As Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey
            regKey = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SYSTEM")
            systm = regKey.OpenSubKey("CurrentControlSet")
            curr = systm.OpenSubKey("Services")
            mess = curr.OpenSubKey(ServiceName, True)
            Dim StartupInt As Integer
            If UCase(StartupType) = "AUTOMATIC" Then
                StartupInt = 2
            ElseIf UCase(StartupType) = "MANUAL" Then
                StartupInt = 3
            ElseIf UCase(StartupType) = "DISABLE" Then
                StartupInt = 4
            End If
            mess.SetValue("Start", StartupInt)
            mess.Close()
        End Sub

Starting and Stopping Services is fairly easy as well.

Public Sub ServiceStop(ByVal ServiceName As String)
            Dim ServiceMessenger As New System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController(ServiceName)
            If ServiceMessenger.CanStop Then
                ServiceMessenger.Stop()
            End If
        End Sub

That will stop a service if it CAN be stopped.

Public Sub ServiceStart(ByVal ServiceName As String)
            Dim ServiceMessenger As New System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController(ServiceName)
            If ServiceMessenger.CanPauseAndContinue = True Then
                ServiceMessenger.Start()
            End If
        End Sub

This will start the service if it can be Paused and Continued. You can change the CanPauseAndContinue to something else, I just wasn't sure of the best method and that seems to work.

If you got anything to add to my code, or any changes needed, please post