Get all Services on a System using C#

How to get all services installed on a machine using C#.

ServiceController class defined in the System.ServiceProcess namespace is used to work with services. ServiceController.GetServices static method gets all services installed on a machine.

This code snippet demonstrates how to get all services installed on a machine and list them in a ListBox control.

Create a Windows Forms application, add a ListBox control onto the Form, add following code and call GetAllServices method on the Form's load event handler.

private void GetAllServices() { foreach (ServiceController service in ServiceController.GetServices()) { string serviceName = service.ServiceName; string serviceDisplayName = service.DisplayName; string serviceType = service.ServiceType.ToString(); string status = service.Status.ToString(); ServicesListBox.Items.Add(serviceName + " " + serviceDisplayName + serviceType + " " + status); } }