Installing .NET Windows Service

Question

I'm trying to install the first service I wrote using:

installutil XMPPMonitor.exe

I get the following message:

Running a transacted installation.

Beginning the Install phase of the installation.
See the contents of the log file for the E:\Documents\Projects\XMPPMonitor\XMPPMonitor\bin\Debug\XMPPMonitor.exe assembly's progress.
The file is located at E:\Documents\Projects\XMPPMonitor\XMPPMonitor\bin\Debug\XMPPMonitor.InstallLog.

The Install phase completed successfully, and the Commit phase is beginning.
See the contents of the log file for the E:\Documents\Projects\XMPPMonitor\XMPPMonitor\bin\Debug\XMPPMonitor.exe assembly's progress.
The file is located at E:\Documents\Projects\XMPPMonitor\XMPPMonitor\bin\Debug\XMPPMonitor.InstallLog.

The Commit phase completed successfully.


The transacted install has completed.

But I'm not setting the service listed when I run services.msc. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

Make sure you correctly created and configured the ServiceInstaller and ServiceProcessInstaller. These are what installutil uses to actually register each service within the process.

Answer 2

I asked a similar question recently : C#: Running and Debugging a Windows Service

Apparently the problem was because I did not have an Installer attached to the service.

Here is the tutorial I used to add a Service Installer and so on.