Hi Michael,
Since creating event log source requires administrative privilege, and it's
only needed to create once, I recommend you create the event log source in
the installer rather than in the service.
We can move the code to create the event log source from MyNewService to
ProjectInstaller:
public partial class MyNewService : ServiceBase
{
public MyNewService()
{
InitializeComponent();
eventLog1.Source = "MySource";
eventLog1.Log = "MyNewLog";
}
[RunInstaller(true)]
public partial class ProjectInstaller : Installer
{
public ProjectInstaller()
{
InitializeComponent();
if (!System.Diagnostics.EventLog.SourceExists("MySour ce"))
{
System.Diagnostics.EventLog.CreateEventSource("MyS ource",
"MyNewLog");
}
As the walkthrough mentioned, reinstalling the service on Windows 2000 will
needs rebooting since the service control manager will first disable the
service for deleting on reboot; for Windows xp and above, the windows
installer has some feature can reinstall the service without rebooting.
That's why you need to use the generated setup file to re-install the
service.
The installutil will need an assembly and install/uninstall the installers
inside the assembly. In this case, we don't need to use installutil
manually, since we've already created a setup project to call the installer
within the service assembly.
Sincerely,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support
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