Programmatically checking whether Integration service is running or not

I am building an application that uses .NET 2.0 transaction feature. Since .NET 2.0 transaction model uses SQL Server 2005 Integration services for its operation, I want to check from my application (.NET 2.0 code) whether the Integration service is running on SQL box or not? Is there a way in which we can accomplish this task?

Prashant

You can query the SSIS service with the GetRunningPackages method to get the packages running on a server.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sqlserver.dts.runtime.application.getrunningpackages.aspx
|||Using GetRunningPackages is perhaps not quite the same as saying is the windows service running, which seemed to be the original question. The fact that the service supports that method would probably allow you to infer that result, but maybe you would want to find out more about the service or control it, in which case have a look at the System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController class. The System.ServiceProcess namespace contains classes for manging Windows Services, not anything specific to SSIS.