How do you set the description on a Windows Service?

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DanL - 01 Oct 2004 16:15 GMT

I can only imagine I have gone blind looking through the .NET documentation.

I have a Windows Service that installs and runs wonderfully.

However, I am a loss as to how to set the "description" text on the Service.
I have browsed through ServiceController, ServiceBase, ServiceInstaller
..etc.

Does anyone here know where this mysterious method/property may be hiding?
OR is it possible that the need to set the description of the Windows Service
was overlooked when the .NET System.ServiceProcess namespace was designed?

Thanks!

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Saurabh Nandu - 03 Oct 2004 03:15 GMT

Hi Dan,

Try applying the ServiceProcessDescriptionAttribute from the
System.ServiceProcess namespace on the service class, it might do the trick

Eg
[ServiceProcessDescriptionAttribute("My Private Service")]
public class MyService:ServiceBase
{
....
}

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Elp - 04 Oct 2004 14:58 GMT

> However, I am a loss as to how to set the "description" text on the
> Service. I have browsed through ServiceController, ServiceBase,
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> Windows Service was overlooked when the .NET System.ServiceProcess
> namespace was designed?

Yes, it seems that they forgot this detail. There are quite a lot of
articles and discussion threads about this problem. Here is one of them:
http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/dotnetscmdescription.asp

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DanL - 04 Oct 2004 16:05 GMT

Thank you very much for the article reference! This is precisely what I was
seeking.

DanL

> > However, I am a loss as to how to set the "description" text on the
> > Service. I have browsed through ServiceController, ServiceBase,
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> articles and discussion threads about this problem. Here is one of them:
> http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/dotnetscmdescription.asp

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