I think I may have found it. In the service itself, the automatically created ServiceProcessInstaller component has a property “Account” which can be set to “LocalService”, “LocalSystem”, “NetworkService” or “User”. It was defaulting to “User” which must have displayed the prompt.
Yes, installing a service isn’t particularly complicated. It just takes writing a handful of registry keys. You can have a look-see with Regedit.exe, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services. Sc.exe can write these keys too, using the supplied command line arguments. Nevertheless, this is not the right way to do it. The point of InstallUtil.exe is that it … Read more
Another reason for this error might be that you copied your program from a source which windows considers untrusted. You can unblock the assembly by clicking “unblock” after you right-click and select properties on the file.
Have you tried the sc / service controller util? Type sc create at a command line, and it will give you the help entry. I think I’ve done this in the past for Subversion and used this article as a reference: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/windows-service.txt
You need to open the Service.cs file in the designer, right click it and choose the menu-option “Add Installer”. It won’t install right out of the box… you need to create the installer class first. Some reference on service installer: How to: Add Installers to Your Service Application Quite old… but this is what I … Read more
Yes, that is fully possible (i.e. I do exactly this); you just need to reference the right dll (System.ServiceProcess.dll) and add an installer class… Here’s an example: [RunInstaller(true)] public sealed class MyServiceInstallerProcess : ServiceProcessInstaller { public MyServiceInstallerProcess() { this.Account = ServiceAccount.NetworkService; } } [RunInstaller(true)] public sealed class MyServiceInstaller : ServiceInstaller { public MyServiceInstaller() { this.Description … Read more