Installing and Debugging a windows Service

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 Image may be NSFW.
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