How to determine if starting inside a windows service?

Question

Currently I\'m checking it in the following way:

if (Environment.UserInteractive)
    Application.Run(new ServiceControllerForm(service));
else
    ServiceBase.R         


        

Answer 1

Why not just use a command line switch?

// Note that you have to add the params argument, 
// which isn't usually present in windows services
private static void Main(params string[] parameters)
{
    ....

    if (parameters.Length > 0)
    {
        if (parameters[0].ToLower() == "/console")
        {
            Application.Run(new ServiceControllerForm(service));  
        {
        else
        {
            ServiceBase.Run(windowsService);
        }
    }
}