Calling ServiceBase.OnStart and OnStop… same instance?

Question

So I\'ve got a Windows service written in c#. The service class derives from ServiceBase, and starting and stopping the service calls instance methods OnStart

Answer 1

If you look in the Program.cs class, you'll see code like the following:

private static void Main()
{
    ServiceBase.Run(new ServiceBase[]
                {
                    new CometService()
                });
}

That is, the instance is created by code within your own project. It's that one instance that all Service Manager calls (including OnStart and OnStop) are made against.