Inno Setup for Windows service?

Question

I have a .Net Windows service. I want to create an installer to install that windows service.

Basically, it has to do the following:

1. Pack installutil.exe (Is it required?)
2. Run installutil.exe MyService.exe
3. Start MyService

Also, I want to provide an uninstaller which runs the following command:

installutil.exe /u MyService.exe 

How to do these using Inno Setup?

Answer 1

You don't need installutil.exe and probably you don't even have rights to redistribute it.

Here is the way I'm doing it in my application:

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Configuration.Install;  using System.IO; using System.Linq; using System.Reflection;  using System.ServiceProcess; using System.Text;  static void Main(string[] args) {     if (System.Environment.UserInteractive)     {         string parameter = string.Concat(args);         switch (parameter)         {             case "--install":                 ManagedInstallerClass.InstallHelper(new string[] { Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location });                 break;             case "--uninstall":                 ManagedInstallerClass.InstallHelper(new string[] { "/u", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location });                 break;         }     }     else     {         ServiceBase.Run(new WindowsService());     } } 

Basically you can have your service to install/uninstall on its own by using ManagedInstallerClass as shown in my example.

Then it's just matter of adding into your InnoSetup script something like this:

[Run] Filename: "{app}\MYSERVICE.EXE"; Parameters: "--install"  [UninstallRun] Filename: "{app}\MYSERVICE.EXE"; Parameters: "--uninstall" 

Answer 2

Here's how i did it:

Exec(ExpandConstant('{dotnet40}\InstallUtil.exe'), ServiceLocation, '', SW_HIDE, ewWaitUntilTerminated, ResultCode); 

Apparently, Inno setup has the following constants for referencing the .NET folder on your system:

• {dotnet11}
• {dotnet20}
• {dotnet2032}
• {dotnet2064}
• {dotnet40}
• {dotnet4032}
• {dotnet4064}

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