I'm trying to create a windows service that needs to run in the background and listen for incoming traffic (a normal and regular TCP listener)
my code is:
private TcpListener server;
public void startServer()
{
// EventLog.WriteEntry(source, "connected on: " + ipAddress.ToString() + " port: " + Service1.Port.ToString());
server = new TcpListener(IPAddress.Parse("127.0.0.1"), Service1.Port);
server.Start();
while (true)
{
var client = server.AcceptTcpClient();
new Thread(work).Start(client);
}
public void work(object client)
{
string msg = null;
var clientLocal = (TcpClient)client;
using (NetworkStream ns = clientLocal.GetStream())
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(ns))
{
byte[] msgFullArray = new UTF8Encoding(true).GetBytes(msg);
fs.Write(msgFullArray, 0, msg.Length);
}
now if you don't look at the work method at all as whenever i start my service it freezes whenever i try to start it at my :
var client = server.AcceptTcpClient();
meaning my service never gets to use the Thread or my Work method..
i can see from previous logging that it enters my while loop and then just times out the service
Best Answer
In your
OnStart
Method you have to instantiate a server class.that is responsible to handle the connections to the server by creating a new
Thread
(so that it is a non-blocking process)for each socket that it will be listening by a
TCPListener
.Here it is the full project article.