Hello lads,

I'm working on monitoring some object (cdr-packets). I'm setting up a tcp-server and am listening on port 50043 for the packages. The program as a console application is working just fine, my server is working like it should and i'm receiving the packets. When i try to use it as a service, i cannot seem to get a client connected to my server. Is there something i need to change to deploy this as a service? Code below is from my application:

this is my service class where i start

protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
    {
        server = new TcpServer();
        server.StartServer();
    }

this is the constructor of TcpServer

public TcpServer()
    {
        try
        {
            _server = new TcpListener(IPAddress.Any, 50043);
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            _server = null;
        }
    }

this is the method i call after initialising the class

public void StartServer()
    {
        if (_server != null)
        {
            // Create a ArrayList for storing SocketListeners before starting the server.
            _socketListenersList = new ArrayList();

            // Start the Server and start the thread to listen client requests.
            _server.Start();
            _serverThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(ServerThreadStart));
            _serverThread.Start();

            // Create a low priority thread that checks and deletes client
            // SocktConnection objcts that are marked for deletion.
            _purgingThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(PurgingThreadStart));
            _purgingThread.Priority = ThreadPriority.Lowest;
            _purgingThread.Start();
        }
    }

this is the thread that keep checking if any client tries to connect

private void ServerThreadStart()
    {
        // Client Socket variable;
        Socket clientSocket = null;
        TcpSocketListener socketListener = null;
        while (!_stopServer)
        {
            try
            {
                // Wait for any client requests and if there is any request from any 
                //client accept it (Wait indefinitely).
                clientSocket = _server.AcceptSocket();

                // Create a SocketListener object for the client.
                socketListener = new TcpSocketListener(clientSocket);

                // Add the socket listener to an array list in a thread safe fashon.
                lock (_socketListenersList)
                {
                    _socketListenersList.Add(socketListener);
                }
                // Start a communicating with the client in a different thread.
                socketListener.StartSocketListener();
            }
            catch (SocketException se)
            {
                _stopServer = true;
            }
        }
    }

when for the first time a packet waits to be read, and i get to "clientSocket = _server.AcceptSocket();", it throws an exception (service, not very good debugable)

Does anyone recognize this problem or can help me?

Thanks in advance