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Hi

I'm trying to write a service. It's a pretty simple thing at the moment that just writes to the EventLog, just so I can get my head around the basics of writing Services. It's compiled fine in Visual Studio, but I'm having a bit of bother getting it to run

Visual Studio says to use InstallUtil.exe to install the service first, so I used it as follows

installutil /AssemblyName myServic

Which appeared to run fine, but the service does not appear in my services list, and I found the following in the install log

No public installers with the RunInstallerAttribute.Yes attribute could be found in the c:\blahblah\myService.exe assembly
Remove InstallState file because there are no installers

I assume this is the reason why it doesn't appear in the services list. What should I be doing differently? There doesn't appear to be a lot of help in the docs for this

Burns
 
Hi,

You need to add an Installer class to the project (the wizard will show this
as one of the choices) and then add a ServiceProcessInstaller and a
ServiceInstaller component to the Installer. Read the docs on these and it
will become clearer.

Cheers

Doug Forster

Burns said:
Hi,

I'm trying to write a service. It's a pretty simple thing at the moment
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that just writes to the EventLog, just so I can get my head around the
basics of writing Services. It's compiled fine in Visual Studio, but I'm
having a bit of bother getting it to run.
Visual Studio says to use InstallUtil.exe to install the service first, so I used it as follows:

installutil /AssemblyName myService

Which appeared to run fine, but the service does not appear in my services
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list, and I found the following in the install log:
No public installers with the RunInstallerAttribute.Yes attribute could be
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found in the c:\blahblah\myService.exe assembly.
Remove InstallState file because there are no installers.

I assume this is the reason why it doesn't appear in the services list.
Click to expand...
What should I be doing differently? There doesn't appear to be a lot of
help in the docs for this.
 
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