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For serviceProcessInstaller1 open Properties tab and change 'Account' property value to 'LocalService'.

Double click Service1.cs, right click in designer and select 'Add Installer'.

NET Framework 4, in 'Search Installed Templates' type 'Service'

Run Visual Studio, Go to File -> New -> Project.

Here is my brief steps how to create service with installer: Nor Kelsey, nor Brendan solutions does not works for me in Visual Studio 2015 Community. String arg = args.ToLowerInvariant().Substring(0, 2) Ĭonsole.WriteLine("Argument not recognized: ): Service not installed!", wex.ErrorCode)

we only care about the first two characters Here's a bit of sample code from one of my services you can use as a starting point. I follow Kelsey's first set of steps to add the installer classes to my service project, but instead of creating an MSI or setup.exe installer I make the service self installing/uninstalling. Choose whichever you want to use to deploy your service. Next build your installer and it will produce an MSI and a setup.exe. By selecting the installer project as well and looking at the properties windows, you can edit the Product Name, Title, Manufacturer, etc. Change the 'Output file name:' to whatever you want. You can edit the installer output name by right clicking the Installer project in your solution and select Properties.

Repeat steps 4 - 5 for commit, rollback and uninstall actions.

Click OK to select "Primary output from." option.

In the "Select Item in Project" dialog, select Application Folder and click OK.

Right-click on the Install action in the Custom Actions tree and select 'Add Custom Action.'.

(In VS2008 it might be View > Editor > Custom Actions)

Right click on the setup project in your Solution Explorer.

Next edit your installer to make sure the correct output is included. On the 3rd step, select "Primary output from."

On the second step select "Create a Setup for a Windows Application." Visual Studio 2010 it is located in: Install Templates > Other Project Types > Setup and Deployment > Visual Studio Installer This could vary slightly for different versions of Visual Studio.ī. Right click on your solution and add a new project: Add > New Project > Setup and Deployment Projects > Setup WizardĪ. The best thing to do is use the setup wizard. You should then setup the properties as you need such as service name and user that it should run as.

Then you will have 2 components on the design view of the ProjectInstaller.cs (serviceProcessInstaller1 and serviceInstaller1).

This will add an installer project file to your project.

Then right click on the gray area and select add installer.

It should bring up a screen that is all gray and talks about dragging stuff from the toolbox.

In the solution explorer double click your services.