Wednesday, 2 January 2013

Install windows service using command prompt



Start --> All Programs --> Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 --> Visual Studio Tools --> Open Visual Studio Command Prompt



After open command prompt point to your windowsservice.exe file in your project
Initially in our command prompt we are able to see path like this

C:\Program Files\ Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC > 

This path is relating to our visual studio installation path because during installation if you give different path this path should be different now we can move to folder which contains our windowsservice.exe file. After moving to exe file exists path my command prompt like this



After moving to our windowsservice.exe contains folder now type 

Installutil windowsservicesample.exe (Give your windows service exe file name) and now press enter button.

After type Installutil windowsservicesample.exe file that would be like this



After that the service will install successfully in your system.

Now I have question do you have idea on how to see installed windows services and how to start our windows service if you have idea good otherwise no need to panic just follow below steps

Start --> Control Panel --> Open Control Panel --> Select Administrative Tools --> Computer Management --> Services and Applications --> Services --> Open services

Now check for your windows service name and right click on that and select option start your windows service has started successfully 



If we want to uninstall the installed windows service you just point to your service same as what I explained previously and type statement installutil /u and your service name
Installutil /u windowsservicesample.exe

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