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Madeline
Madeline

Reputation: 645

Installing C# service with ManagedInstallerClass

I have been trying with no avail to get this service to install.

I am currently using InnoSetup since the Visual Studio installer just didn't entirely make sense to me, to be honest (It is also 1am. D:)

I took some of the code from this thread: Inno Setup for Windows service?

And everyone there says it worked perfectly for them, but they don't entirely explain what they did or where they put that code. Was it a console application? Where?

So, I stuck it where I thought it might have supposed to go. When you add an installer class to a service, a 'Program.cs' class gets created, so that is where I put it.

Here is my 'Program.cs':

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.ServiceProcess;
using System.Text;
using System.Configuration.Install;
using System.Reflection;

namespace Installer
{
    static class Program
    {
    /// <summary>
    /// The main entry point for the application.
    /// </summary>
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("MASDjhd");
        string parameter = string.Concat(args);
        switch (parameter)
        {
            case "--install":
                ManagedInstallerClass.InstallHelper(new string[] { Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location });
                break;
            case "--uninstall":
                ManagedInstallerClass.InstallHelper(new string[] { "/u", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location });
                break;
          }

        }
    }
}

Here is my InnoScript:

[Setup]
AppName=MachineVerification
AppVersion=1.0
DefaultDirName={pf}\MachineVerification
DefaultGroupName=MachineVerification
UninstallDisplayIcon={app}\MachineVerification.exe
Compression=lzma2
SolidCompression=yes

[Files]
Source: "Installer.exe"; DestDir: "{app}"

[Run]
Filename:"{app}\Installer.exe"; Parameters: "--install"

[UninstallRun]
Filename: "{app}\Installer.exe"; Parameters: "--uninstall"

Help? D:

Upvotes: 4

Views: 13265

Answers (1)

Madeline
Madeline

Reputation: 645

Found my answer here: Self install windows service in .NET c#

For those you who want to follow the link, the solution is to add:

        var processInstaller = new ServiceProcessInstaller();
        var serviceInstaller = new ServiceInstaller();

        //set the privileges
        processInstaller.Account = ServiceAccount.LocalSystem;

        serviceInstaller.DisplayName = "MachineVerification";
        serviceInstaller.StartType = ServiceStartMode.Automatic;

        //must be the same as what was set in Program's constructor
        serviceInstaller.ServiceName = "MachineVerification";
        this.Installers.Add(processInstaller);
        this.Installers.Add(serviceInstaller);

to the constructor of your install class in your service.

Upvotes: 4

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