Installing a service through code.

[UJ]

I have a situation where I want to upgrade/add a service on a machine
automatically. If the service is already there, I need to remove it. I then
need to install a new version of the service. How do I go about this in
code?

TIA - Jeff.

 

[Guest]

Unless you want to take another approach, you would normailly write an MSI
Windows installer (Deployment Project) and set the "Remove Previous Versions"
property to true.
Your installer would also need to have some custom commands to stop and
uninstall the previous version, and install and start the new version. Some
study will be required, there are a few articles out there that will help.
Peter

 

[UJ]

Thanks Peter. But I need to have it done silently behind the scenes. A
program will figure out there's a new version and run without human
intervention.

Jeff.

 

[Chris Dunaway]

Check this link out. I posted some code which I use to install
windows service programatically. You should be able to adapt it to
your purposes. I think it is in VB but should be fairly straight
forward to convert.

http://tinyurl.com/7382d

 

[Guest]

In that case, you will probably want to study the AppUpdater Application Block.
The basic concept is, a process will check a webservice periodically to see
if there is a new version. If so, it will silently download and install it.
Peter

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[UJ]

Well isn't that just a kick in the head. That's exactly what I was looking
for.

Thanks.