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Here is some useful information that I always seem to forget when developing windows services.

• To install/uninstall manually, which i find helpful to do from the bin folder of your project use the following commands:
  • INSTALL: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil.exe [the name of the executable]
  • UNINSTALL: %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil.exe -u [the name of the executable]
• To Debug a windows service add the following code to your Main method
  
static void Main(string[] args)
{
#if DEBUG
System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();
#endif

  ServiceBase.Run(new Service());

  }


• To create an installation package for a service: ....I will come back to that - no time to put it together today

Technorati Tags: Development, services, visual studio, Windows

While working on my sharepoint development machine today I was mucking about with variations and doing a proof of concept.  Now I know they worked before but for some reason when I created a new page in the source site they were not being propagated through to the variation label sites.  In Centeral Admin under the Timer Status I found that the Variations Propagate Page Job Definition and the Variations Propagate Site Job Definition were both stuck at 0% and Initialized, see below:

Seeing this, I now knew that the Timer service was not creating my variation pages and sites so a quick check under the windows services control panel applet  revealed that the Windows SharePoint Services Timer Service had been shut off.  Turning this back fixed my problem.

Technorati Tags: Configuration, services, SharePoint, Windows