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();
#endifServiceBase.Run(new Service());}
- To create an installation package for a service: ....I will come back to that - no time to put it together today
