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.NET Forum / .NET Framework / CLR / June 2005"self-installing" service
I used to create services in a 'self-installing' way: a single executable that serves both as the service executable and as configuration/install program. Depending on a command line option they start either the service itself ("-service" present) or a configuration/install GUI (switch not present). Is there a way to use this approach in a ServiceBase-derived class with the CLR's built-in classes, without going through raw APIs? Can it be done at all? Is the Main() function in a class derived from ServiceBase called from the "real" main() function (the exe's entry point) or from ServiceMain, the service entry point that's passed to the SCM by main()? You can get very easily get real close to what you are trying to acheive. You can pass command line parameters to a service, and have it start as a regular windows app - makes debugging a lot simpler. I blogged about that at one point right here - http://www.codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/archive/2004/12/06/35295.aspx And then you can also install it as a service using MSI or command line tools (msi preferred). Once it is installed, then you can use it as either command line (it is an exe afterall) or as a service. If you really really wanted the exe to be smart enough to register itself as a service - when run without parameters, you can use Win32 Api to install a service - the overall approach remains the same as described in my blog post at http://www.codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/archive/2004/12/06/35295.aspx - Sahil Malik [MVP] Upcoming ADO.NET 2.0 book - http://tinyurl.com/9bync ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- > I used to create services in a 'self-installing' way: a single executable > that serves both as the service executable and as configuration/install [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > or from ServiceMain, the service entry point that's passed to the SCM by > main()? > You can get very easily get real close to what you are trying to acheive. > You can pass command line parameters to a service, and have it start as a > regular windows app - makes debugging a lot simpler. I blogged about that at > one point right here - > http://www.codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/archive/2004/12/06/35295.aspx Thanks, I'll have a look at it.
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