.NET Windows Service Start Failure

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Rick Mavrovik - 19 Jun 2007 14:26 GMT

Hi,
I am following every step to the letter mentioned in the various articles on
writing and debugging .NET
service. But when i start debugging the service i get this error (pasted
below), although the service has been successfully installed and started.
What could be causing this??
Please help!!
-Rick

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Windows Service Start Failure
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Cannot start service from the command line or a debugger. A Windows Service
must first be installed (using installutil.exe) and then started with the
ServerExplorer, Windows Services Administrative tool or the NET START
command.
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OK
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Rick Mavrovik - 19 Jun 2007 17:16 GMT

I forgot to mention....
the service does run but this error stops the debugger so i am not able to
debug the service..

> Hi,
> I am following every step to the letter mentioned in the various articles
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
> OK
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Paul Wardle - 19 Jun 2007 17:45 GMT

Did you start the debugger using F5 (Debug) ? Instead, try starting the
service through Control Panel->Services and then attach the debugger to the
process.

Good luck.

Paul Wardle

>I forgot to mention....
> the service does run but this error stops the debugger so i am not able to
[quoted text clipped - 19 lines]
>> OK
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Rick Mavrovik - 20 Jun 2007 10:06 GMT

I installed the service using InstallUtil

then started the service using the Control Panel>Services

and then after setting the breakpoint and attaching the process, pressed
F5... the strange thing is that it does not give the error immidiately
rather after the Timer1_Elapsed has fired, it prompts that 'Cannot start
service from the command line or a debugger.........'

> Did you start the debugger using F5 (Debug) ? Instead, try starting the
> service through Control Panel->Services and then attach the debugger to
[quoted text clipped - 27 lines]
>>> OK
>>> ---------------------------

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