Windows 7 Trigger start

I have a Windows service in a Visual Studio .NET project (C#) that I want to start from elsewhere in the project . When I try and use the following code

ServiceController service = new ServiceController("servicename");

ServiceController service = new ServiceController("servicename");
 service.Start();

I get an exception

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  David14y agoPosted Jan 21, 2012, 6:52 PM

  Your "service.Start();" line will only work if you are running as administrator. If it is an exe then right click and select  'Run as administrator". If you are in Visual Studio, run Visual Studio as administrator and then open your project. Does this solve your problem?