RE: Installing WindowsService to system without Visual Studio Tool

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Hi Steven

Thank you for an excellent answer. I'm sure this will work perfect.
I also found that in Windows 2003 Resource Kit was the program instsrv.exe
,which take care of business in a snapp without complex setup programs.

So, for my production machine, which is a Windows 2003 Server, it worked well.

Best Regards
--
Peter Karlström
Midrange AB
Sweden


"Steven Cheng [MSFT]" wrote:

Hi Peter,

From your description, you've built a .NET windows service project and can
use installUtil.exe to install it in dev environment. You're wondering how
to get it installed in product environment where the InstallUtil Command
tool is not available, correct?

Based on my research, for .NET windows service project, it can be deployed
via the setup project(just like all other kind of projects). If your sevice
project is installable via InstallUtil, then, you do not need to change it.
What you need is an additional Setup project for your service projecct's
deployment.

The following msdn reference mentioned general info of creating setup
project and use installer class (in custom action ) for install.

#How to: Install and Uninstall Services
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sd8zc8ha(VS.80).aspx

#Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Action
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d9k65z2d(VS.80).aspx

For your case, here is the main steps you need to do for creating the setup
project:

1. Create a standard setup project in Visual studio(2005 or 2008)

2. Add files into setup project from your windows service project(via
"Primary project output")

3. Add a custom Action for the setup project, and choose the "primary
project output" you added previously

4. Make sure you set "InstallerClass" to true , so that the setup project
will automatically use the "Installer" class(you've already created in the
windows service project to install the service.

For more detailed info, here is a dedicated knowledge base article about
creating setup project for windows service:

#How to create a Setup project for a Windows Service in Visual Basic .NET
or in Visual Basic 2005
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317421

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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From: =?Utf-8?B?UGV0ZXIgS2FybHN0csO2bQ==?= <HayRoller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Installing WindowsService to system without Visual Studio Tools
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:05:00 -0700


Hi

I have made a Windows Service in Visual Studio 2005.
The service is tested in my developer machine and all works fine.
Now I'm ready to install it on my server.
How do I install this service on the server since Visual Studio Tools and
InstallUtil not is installed there?

--
Peter Karlström
Midrange AB
Sweden



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