C# Windows Service Timeout on startup

Question

I\'m having difficulty trying to determine the cause of a timeout in a Windows Service I\'ve created with C#. I\'ve spent a considerable amount of time looking at several posts

Answer 1

In general, spawning a background thread from OnStart is the right thing to do.

For troubleshooting purposes, you could try to give your service more startup time by calling RequestAdditionalTime method from OnStart. Also, you might want to check if any messages have been written to the Windows EventLog (log "Application", the source should be your service name).