Restarting SharePoint 2010 Timer Service Programmatically

I need to restart the Timer Service from an application and it took me some time to find the answer. It’s as easy as one could think.

Anyway here's the code:

/// 

/// Stops the SharePoint timer.
/// 
public static void TimerStop()
{
    ServiceController timerService = new ServiceController(Constants.SPTimerName);

    if (timerService.Status == ServiceControllerStatus.Running)
    {
        timerService.Stop();
        timerService.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped, Constants.WaitingTimeout);
    }
}

/// 

/// Starts the SharePoint timer.
/// 
public static void TimerStart()
{
    ServiceController timerService = new ServiceController(Constants.SPTimerName);

    if (timerService.Status == ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped)
    {
        timerService.Start();
        timerService.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Running, Constants.WaitingTimeout);
    }
}

And by the way the constants are:

public static TimeSpan WaitingTimeout = new TimeSpan(0, 1, 30);
public static string SPTimerName = "SharePoint 2010 Timer";