Get Windows Service Description ASP .NET
I'm writing a service monitoring ASP .NET app and I'm having issues particularly with getting the service descriptions. My current method (reading from registry) is not going to work due to registry read permissions on the production server.

For example:

    Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey system, currentControlSet, services, service;
    system = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("System");
    currentControlSet = system.OpenSubKey("CurrentControlSet");
    services = currentControlSet.OpenSubKey("Services");
    service = services.OpenSubKey(scTemp.ServiceName, true);
    row["service_description"] = service.GetValue("Description");

Produces:

> System.Security.SecurityException: Requested registry access is not allowed.

My question is:

Is there a work-around with another .NET class (maybe under System.ServiceProcess namespace?) or will it always end with a security exception error?

I have no issues getting Service names and states with the System.ServiceProcess namespace but I can't find any classes contained to get descriptions which is why I resorted to reading from registry.
Get Windows Service Description ASP .NET
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I'm writing a service monitoring ASP .NET app and I'm having issues particularly with getting the service descriptions. My current method (reading from registry) is not going to work due to registry read permissions on the production server.

For example:

    Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey system, currentControlSet, services, service;
    system = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("System");
    currentControlSet = system.OpenSubKey("CurrentControlSet");
    services = currentControlSet.OpenSubKey("Services");
    service = services.OpenSubKey(scTemp.ServiceName, true);
    row["service_description"] = service.GetValue("Description");

Produces:

> System.Security.SecurityException: Requested registry access is not allowed.

My question is:

Is there a work-around with another .NET class (maybe under System.ServiceProcess namespace?) or will it always end with a security exception error?

I have no issues getting Service names and states with the System.ServiceProcess namespace but I can't find any classes contained to get descriptions which is why I resorted to reading from registry.