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Tony Fountain - 31 Jul 2003 11:35 GMT

I have a windows service written in C#. It's a simple service that will run
as our remote host listener. First question: how do you install a service
to accept a command line parameter when the service starts? Second
question, how do you install multiple instances of the same service (i.e.
SQL Server Agent)? I've looked high and low and haven't found any samples
that assisted me. Granted, I've been doing NET programming for a whole week
now and there's a lot I don't understand fully yet!

Thanks in advance,
Tony Fountain, MCSD

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Tony Fountain - 31 Jul 2003 16:26 GMT

Ok, I have figured out a couple things:

Regarding parameters being passed to a service. The parameters in the
property page of the service within the Service Control Manager do not
persist. The parameters only get passed to the OnStart method if started
from the property page. However, I did determine that by using a command
line parameter my Main procedure would get the information I needed to my
component. Although I could not figure out how to install the service with
a command line parameter so I had to edit the registry entry to include the
it.

So now my questions are as follows:
1) Using the tools available in .NET, is it possible to create a service
installer class that takes a parameter. This parameter would then be used
to specify the command line parameter for the service itself.
2) I still am unable to install the same exe as multiple services so any
insight would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Tony Fountain, MCSD

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