I'm trying to make basic windows service that should write into application event log some text once every minute. So I'm using a timer. But the Tick event doesn't fire.. I've tried all kinds of timer1.start() or timer1.enabled=true ... but nothing works. Everything with service itself is ok- I mean it can be installed, started and onStart() and onStop() it writes event log (also custom, not only the windows default, so the writing itself works..)
So here's the code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.ServiceProcess;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Timers;
using System.Threading;
namespace SERVICE2
{
public partial class SERVICE2 : ServiceBase
{
public SERVICE2()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
timer1.Enabled = true;
string src = "Test_Service_2";
string lg = "Application";
string evnt = "SERVICE2 started!";
if (!EventLog.SourceExists(src))
EventLog.CreateEventSource(src, lg);
EventLog.WriteEntry(src, evnt);
timer1.Start();
}
protected override void OnStop()
{
string src2 = "Test_Service_2";
string lg2 = "Application";
string evnt2 = "SERVICE2 stopped!";
if (!EventLog.SourceExists(src2))
EventLog.CreateEventSource(src2, lg2);
EventLog.WriteEntry(src2, evnt2);
timer1.Stop();
timer1.Enabled = false;
}
private void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string sSource;
string sLog;
string sEvent;
sSource = "Test_Service_2";
sLog = "Application";
sEvent = "Timer TICK";
if (!EventLog.SourceExists(sSource))
EventLog.CreateEventSource(sSource, sLog);
EventLog.WriteEntry(sSource, sEvent);
EventLog.WriteEntry(sSource, sEvent,
EventLogEntryType.Warning, 234);
}
}
}
I'd appreciate any help.
Could the problem be in timer properties suck as modifiers: public, or generate members- true?
I'm using Visual Studio 2005
Unsolved 
