c# windows service, how to install on different machine?

[S Moran]

so i can use installutil to install the service on the machine the service
was written on, but how can i take the EXE and install on another computer
that doesnt have installutil?

am i limited to the ms command line utilities that normally install exe's as
services?

[Phil Wilson]

Every setup tool I've ever seen has a way to install a service, and that
includes VS 2005 setup&deployment projects, so I'd start there.
--
Phil Wilson
[MVP Windows Installer]

"S Moran" <[e-mail] in message
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so i can use installutil to install the service on the machine the service
was written on, but how can i take the EXE and install on another computer
that doesnt have installutil?

am i limited to the ms command line utilities that normally install exe's
as services?

[Chris Mullins [MVP]]

You could give your exe a "-install" command line argument.

.... at which point, it would go out and register itself as a service. No
trouble.

The Service class has everything you need to install / uninstall a service.

--
Chris Mullins, MCSD.NET, MCPD:Enterprise, Microsoft C# MVP
http://www.coversant.com/blogs/cmullins

"S Moran" <[e-mail] in message
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so i can use installutil to install the service on the machine the service
was written on, but how can i take the EXE and install on another computer
that doesnt have installutil?

am i limited to the ms command line utilities that normally install exe's
as services?

[S Moran]

could you elaborate? what code do i have to add and can you give a small
example?

"Chris Mullins [MVP]" <cm******@yahoo.comwrote in message
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You could give your exe a "-install" command line argument.

... at which point, it would go out and register itself as a service. No
trouble.

The Service class has everything you need to install / uninstall a
service.

--
Chris Mullins, MCSD.NET, MCPD:Enterprise, Microsoft C# MVP
http://www.coversant.com/blogs/cmullins

"S Moran" <[e-mail] in message
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>so i can use installutil to install the service on the machine the
service was written on, but how can i take the EXE and install on another
computer that doesnt have installutil?

am i limited to the ms command line utilities that normally install exe's
as services?

[Chris Mullins [MVP]]

There are tons of articles on the web how to do this:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadF...eInCSharp.aspx

All you need to do really is poke at 2 or 3 registry keys.

--
Chris Mullins, MCSD.NET, MCPD:Enterprise, Microsoft C# MVP
http://www.coversant.com/blogs/cmullins

"S Moran" <[e-mail] in message
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could you elaborate? what code do i have to add and can you give a small
example?

"Chris Mullins [MVP]" <cm******@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>You could give your exe a "-install" command line argument.

... at which point, it would go out and register itself as a service. No
trouble.

The Service class has everything you need to install / uninstall a
service.

--
Chris Mullins, MCSD.NET, MCPD:Enterprise, Microsoft C# MVP
http://www.coversant.com/blogs/cmullins

"S Moran" <[e-mail] in message
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>>so i can use installutil to install the service on the machine the
service was written on, but how can i take the EXE and install on
another computer that doesnt have installutil?

am i limited to the ms command line utilities that normally install
exe's as services?

[Chris Dunaway]

On Jul 12, 1:09 pm, "S Moran" <[e-mail]:

so i can use installutil to install the service on the machine the service
was written on, but how can i take the EXE and install on another computer
that doesnt have installutil?

am i limited to the ms command line utilities that normally install exe's as
services?

If the target machine has the .Net framework properly installed, then
InstallUtil will be present there.

Chris