Start-Service return immediately

I'm using powershell in VS2005 pre and post build events to start and stop
the windows service I'm working on. I need the start-service command to
return right away and not wait for the service to start before returning.
It's causing a chicken and egg situation. Anyone know how to do this?

Here are the details for anyone interested:
I have a script that is run on pre-build event to stop the service and
record in a scratch file whether the service was running or not. On
post-build I have a script that runs to check the scratch file and start the
service again if it was running before the rebuild.
I'm using Debugger.Launch; Dubugger.Break; in the service startup code so I
can jump in and debug the startup logic. Here is where the problem is...
the powershell script will not return until the service finishes startup code
and the VS2005 IDE won't let me jump into the starup code to debug in the
currently open instance becuase it is busy running a post-build event. If
the script would return right away and not wait for the service to finish
starting then I think I'd be fine.

Thanks for the help

can you try this ?

powerShell {start-service service}

or this

cmd /c start /b powerShell {start-service wmi}

greetings /\/\o\/\/


"Jibbers42" wrote:

> I'm using powershell in VS2005 pre and post build events to start and stop
> the windows service I'm working on. I need the start-service command to
> return right away and not wait for the service to start before returning.
> It's causing a chicken and egg situation. Anyone know how to do this?
>
> Here are the details for anyone interested:
> I have a script that is run on pre-build event to stop the service and
> record in a scratch file whether the service was running or not. On
> post-build I have a script that runs to check the scratch file and start the
> service again if it was running before the rebuild.
> I'm using Debugger.Launch; Dubugger.Break; in the service startup code so I
> can jump in and debug the startup logic. Here is where the problem is...
> the powershell script will not return until the service finishes startup code
> and the VS2005 IDE won't let me jump into the starup code to debug in the
> currently open instance becuase it is busy running a post-build event. If
> the script would return right away and not wait for the service to finish
> starting then I think I'd be fine.
>
> Thanks for the help