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Two Lines of Code - Installing Windows Services w/o InstallUtil.exe

After long time of browsing the web I finally found an article describing how to install/uninstall a service with only two lines of code.

Install:

String []installParams= {filename};
System.Configuration.Install.ManagedInstallerClass.InstallHelper(installParams);

Uninstall:

String []installParams= {"/u", filename};
System.Configuration.Install.ManagedInstallerClass.InstallHelper(installParams);

You have to add System.Configuration.Install reference manually.

Please have a look at Roaan's article at SA Developer http://www.sadeveloper.net/viewarticle.aspx?articleID=49 for further information about logging and stack output.

Posted: Mar 10 2004, 12:06 PM by SebastianWeber | with 10 comment(s)

Comments

afsari said:

Hi.. I have tried this but i am getting FileNot Found exception.

# February 15, 2008 11:30 AM

John said:

You need to specify the full path to the file.

# March 14, 2008 2:33 PM

Sanjay Choubey said:

give appropriate url

# March 25, 2008 1:43 AM

Joseph said:

Thanks, was very helpful

# March 31, 2008 3:07 PM

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Where I will write this code, in a new service project or in my own service. Please ...

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