{"id":1023,"date":"2017-12-02T08:33:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T08:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2020-01-09T09:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T09:26:52","slug":"windows-service-does-not-appear-in-windows-service-control-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/windows-service-does-not-appear-in-windows-service-control-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Service does not appear in Windows Service Control Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>msiexpert created the topic: Windows Service does not appear in Windows Service Control Manager<\/strong><br \/>\nHi<br \/>\nI am building a windows service with VS2010 Beta 2.  I created a windows service project in vb.  I added a ServiceController object to the service designer, I also added a ServiceInstaller and ServiceProcessInstaller and configured the ServiceInstaller.ServiceName = Service Project Name.  I also added a deployment project with the correct Primary output project and the necessary additional dll and xml files I am using.<\/p>\n<p>When I install using the .msi file the project installed successfully under the correct application directory and I get successful install message, however the service does not show up in the Service Control Manager.  The platform is Vista Premium Service Pack 2.  Also when I build the thing in VS2010 I always get the following warning message:<\/p>\n<p>Warning 1 Item &#8216;Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile (x86 and x64)&#8217; could not find any of dependent items &#8216;Microsoft.Windows.Installer.3.1, Microsoft.Windows.Installer.4.5&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>All the components used in the service are .NET 2.0 or lower.  I have set the complier options to .NET 2.0 through to .NET 4.0 Beta.  I always get the warning message.  Any ideas why the Service Control Manager is not picking up my service? Any help much appreciated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>InstallerGeek replied the topic: Re: Windows Service does not appear in Windows Service Control Manager<\/strong><br \/>\nSounds like an overly complicated project. I recommend reading this article:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudiomagazine.com\/Articles\/2005\/1...Windows-Service.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visualstudiomagazine.com\/Articles\/2005\/1&#8230;Windows-Service.aspx <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found the code in that article to be overly complicated for my service application needs, so I developed a simple version which I will post in a separate reply.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure if this information will help, but simpler is usually better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>msiexpert created the topic: Windows Service does not appear in Windows Service Control Manager Hi I am building a windows service with VS2010 Beta 2. I created a windows service&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[250],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}