Deployment Project and Windows Service - CSharp

Take a look here:

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20041204.asp

Don't concentrate on the msmq or "ICommand pattern" stuff.

CHeck out Peter's bat files. install.bat and uninstall.bat

Man, I am so thankful he figured that thing out.

It makes installing / uninstalling services a breeze.



<kirk.quinbar@zywave.com> wrote in message
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> Have you ever used a .net deployment project to install a windows
> service? If so, then i ran into an issue recently that maybe you could
> shed some light on. I am sure I probably did something wrong, but I am
> experiencing something weird and am not sure if it has something to do
> with the way the WindowServiceInstaller class was created or if i did
> something wrong in my deployment project.
>
> Basically what happens is that after I build the deployment project, i
> can install and uninstall the windows service just fine on my own
> machine, but after I install it on another machine, the uninstall part
> doesnt work right. It looks like it uninstalls it, but what happens is
> that it leaves the service in the windows service list and then just
> the exe in the install directory (there are a few dependent dlls it
> gets rid of just fine).
>
> fyi, my deployment project has the 4 custom actions setup with the
> output of the primary object per one of the many webpages i found that
> talks about setting up a deployment project for a windows service.
>
> weird huh? isnt that what always happens with programmers. "well it
> works on my machine" lol
>