Question

I am working on VS 2008 and 3.5 framework. I had three windows services. I placed all three in a single solution, created installer individually for each of them. Then created a setup project. When I build it says build failed . But I checked on the errorlist, (i enabled the diagnostics in options menu), but there was no error at all. I went ahead and installed. There were no issues, But there was no service showed up in the services.msc.

I installed each service individually , using installutil command, it showed up. But my requirement is to bundle these services and deploy to the client. The client should install it.

Where am I going wrong. Any inputs will be highly appreciated.

Regards cmrhema

Answer 1

I notice your comment above about omitting the custom action. Same mistake I made! For posterity, here s the entire process:

Make sure you have added the project installer to your service project (described here). These components give your service EXE the ability to register itself with the service manager.
Add a setup project to your solution.
Add the primary output from your service project to the setup project (described here). This puts the binary into the application directory.
Add a custom deployment action to your setup project containing the primary output from your service project. This looks like a repeat of step 3, but what it s actually doing here is registering your service with the service manager.

This walkthrough goes through each of these steps in some detail.

Answer 2

I too have a similar problem with VS 2008 and I believe it is a bug in the IDE rather than anything you re doing wrong.

Basically what happens is that VS reports a failed build, but does not indicate any reason for the failure. I find that restarting Visual Studio and then performing another build allows the build to succeed.

I read somewhere that for some people the bug is caused by some auto-created project file, but a restart fixes the problem for me.

Answer 3

Build failed -> what else is there in the Output window?

For some general reference regarding setup projects for windows services in .net: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa983650%28VS.71%29.aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317421

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