.NET Windows Service with timer stops responding

Question

I have a windows service written in c#. It has a timer inside, which fires some functions on a regular basis. So the skeleton of my service:

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Answer 1

Interesting issue. If it is truly just time related (i.e. not an exception), then I wonder if you can simply periodically recycle the timer - i.e.

private void tickTack_Elapsed(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
    CheckForRecycle();
    // ... actual code
}

private void CheckForRecycle()
{
    lock(someLock) {
        if(++tickCount > MAX_TICKS) {
            tickCount = 0;
            tickTack.Stop();
            // re-create timer
            tickTack = new Timer(...);
            tickTack.Elapsed += ...
            tickTack.Start();
        }
    }
}

You could probably merge chunks of this with the OnStart / OnStop etc to reduce duplication.