kill windows service programmatically

This function will allow you to Kill Windows Services programmatically using C# or VB.NET. Below function will accept the Windows service name as string input parameter and using that name it will find and kill windows services and return you Boolean value true on successful and false on unsuccessful.

In C# code Sample

/// <summary>
/// Find and kill the process
/// </summary>
/// <param name="name"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static bool KillProcess(string name)
{
       foreach (Process process in Process.GetProcesses())
       {
              if (process.ProcessName.StartsWith(name))
              {
                    process.Kill();
                    return true;
              }
       }
return false;
}

In VB.NET example function

Thanks,
Amit