AddressAlreadyInUseException occurs when restarting windows service

[Karthik Veerabathiran]

I am getting an AddressAlreadyInUseException error when ever I restart my windows service. Issue is not occurring if the service is stopped first and restarted then.

I have googled the problem and tried few suggestions, nothing worked. So I thought to have a fresh perspective from technical experts. Any help would be highly appreciated.

Exception:

Cannot listen on pipe name 'net.pipe://0.0.0.0/SomeService' because another pipe endpoint is already listening on that name.

When Starting service, I will open a service host.

ServiceHost _serverHost = new ServiceHost(this);
_serverHost.Open(); // Exception occurs here.

Start Method:

public void Start(string serviceName)
{
_serviceName = serviceName;

if (_serviceController == null)
{
_serviceController = new ServiceController(_serviceName);
}

try
{
switch (_serviceController.Status)
{
case ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped:
_serviceController.Start();
_serviceController.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Running);
break;
case ServiceControllerStatus.Paused:
_serviceController.Continue();
_serviceController.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Running);
break;
}
}
catch
{
}
}

Stop Method:

public void Stop()
{
try
{
if (_serviceController == null)
{
_serviceController = new ServiceController(_serviceName);
}

if (_serviceController.Status == ServiceControllerStatus.Running)
{
_serviceController.Stop();
_serviceController.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped);
}
}
catch
{
}
}

App.Config:

<endpoint address="" binding="netNamedPipeBinding" contract="Messages">
</endpoint>
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress="net.pipe://0.0.0.0/SomeService"/>
</baseAddresses>
</host>

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