Enclosing service execution in try-catch: bad practice?

Posted by Sorin Comanescu on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Sorin Comanescu
Published on 2010-05-10T08:28:03Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 8:44 UTC
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Hi,

Below is the usual Program.cs content for a windows service program:

static class Program
{
    /// <summary>
    /// The main entry point for the application.
    /// </summary>
    static void Main()
    {
        ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;
        ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[] 
        { 
            new MyService() 
        };
        ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);
    }
}

Is it a bad practice to enclose the ServiceBase.Run(...) in a try-catch block?

Thanks.

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