Elioth,
You have a couple of options.
1) Start the service in the Service Control Manager and attach the VS
debugger to a running process via Debug | Processes. I don't like this
option because the application may have already performed a lot of work
before you can attach and set a breakpoint.
2) Setup the application to run either as a service or a console
application. It's much easier to debug a console application. The
following code demonstrates what I'm talking about. There are several
variations on this theme including the use of conditional compilation.
Shared Sub Main()
If Environment.UserInteractive Then
' Run as a console application.
Dim service As Service1 = New Service1
service.OnStart(Nothing)
Console.WriteLine("Press ENTER to quit...")
Console.ReadLine()
service.OnStop()
Else
' Assume the Service Control Manager invoked the application.
Dim ServicesToRun() As ServiceBase
ServicesToRun = New ServiceBase () {New Service1}
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun)
End If
End Sub
Brian
