Operations on Service with name containing '$' character fail
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I have a service, whose name contains dollar sign $.
That's because it's Topshelf service with named instance, so convention there is ServiceName$Instance.
Therefore operating on service using e.g. StopService() is impossible, because it's using quoted arguments, which in powershell are evaluated during execution.
So sc.exe stop MyService$InstanceA in powershell would be evaluated to sc.exe stop MyService;
Evaluation can be prevented using single quotes, or StringLiteralArgument.
Sorry but this addin uses System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController to start / stop services, not Powershell...
I am sure I've seen some code with powershell and sc.exe here... I will check again.
Ok, my bad. It's not Start/Stop but Install/Uninstall methods.
Installing a service with ServiceName = "MyService$InstanceA" actually installs it with name MyService.