Develop and Install a Windows Service in C#

Thank you very much it's helped a lot of time and simply and neatly explained

Perfect Tutorial...easy to understand

Great tutorial! Now I understand how to build a service, thanks!

Nice clean article. Thank you. I still have much to learn about building a Windows Service. Do you have any more examples to offer.

Nice article, thanks for sharing.

How to install the windows service in other computer

How can we start this windows app automatically ?

Very Nice Article

Thanks for sharing

Thank you sir

Is it possible we can use windows service into to different project's

Thank u sir

Well written article. Thanks for sharing.

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Hi Naresh, It is good to add few points on How to debug the Windows services in Visual Studio for Developer friendly.

Its really helpful.

Great Article and Thanks for sharing

I want to start SqlServer services on computer startup. Using windows services

I would recommend developers check out TopShelf NuGet too for converting a console app into a Windows Service

Thanks you!

Quiero instalar mi servicio en una maquina donde no hay visual studio .Que pasos debo realizar.

Thanks, this is help me too much!

Which means Windows Service is just like a library which keeps on running in background . In case if we need a mechanism for communication between different softwares , then WCF will be the solution.

Perfect article. Thanks for writing

How can I run multiple Windows services in one .EXE ?

I tried changing the path of the log file to @"D:/LogFile.txt and "D://LogFile.txt". But there are errors.......Help me, thanks.

Great article Naresh. In your opinion, Can I use a windows service to monitoring a console application, and in case of exception write a log and restart the console application?

Hi thanks. i was using sample project like same but there was not InstallUtil.exe in bin how to get the exe . pls replay.......

Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.Can you give me a solution for that?This happens when I start the service.

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Thanx for this....very helpfull..

Thanks a lot for tutorial !

Great, it will be very helpful to me.

Works great... Cool explanation.. Thanks !

This is awesome tutorial mate. Thanks a lot for it. You should consider the fact of using EventLogger instead of .TXT log file

This is jolly wonderful article, and useful very. I use this now to create them windows services. Thanks much.

What if I want to install on another PC which does not run visual studio ? Is there any other means to install windows services aside using the visual studio developer command prompt ?

Very helpful article.

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I have installed my windows service successfully, but it is not visible in 'Services and Applications" window. what to do?

Thank you for this article. Great!!!

Thanks for the Article sir, it's very useful, but I want to ask, if I updated my windows service code, do I have to uninstall existing service then install it again?

How to host this in azure

Hi, I tried to make a service like you've done. But while installing that exe using that VS console, its giving me error like- Exception occurred while initializing the installation:System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'file ://C:\WindowsService\TestWindowsService\TestWindowsService\bin\Debug\TestWindowsService.exe' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.. Please help.

Its works fine Thanks So much

Nice Article Sir and very good working code.

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Thanks For Nice Article and Style of understanding..:)

This is best one article so far I have read online. I would like to appreciate you for making it very simple and easy. I have found another nice post related to this post over the internet which also explained very well.https://www.mindstick.com/Articles/988/windows-service-in-dot-net

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Thank you very much, very easy to understand and complete. Just the following (some of it written in other remarks): 1 Open Developer Command Prompt via Run as Administrator otherwise you get an Access Denied Error. 2) On logon use .\YourWinLogonName (instead of YourWinLogonName) otherwise you get The account name is invalid or does not exist. 3) If you set the service as automatic the option to set the "Account" to "LocalSystem" does not appear (at least I guess that is the cause) 4) Also an Automatic service has to be started the first time manually using My Computer, Services 5) Use InstallUtil.exe /u “MyService.exe” if you want to uninstall it again.

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Simple and powerful.. ;) Thank you very much.

in the VS Cmd prompt

here it is showing 'Access is denied'

nice article for beginners.

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It really help beginners like me.

Thanks for such a clear explanation. It helped a lot :)

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Hi kunal, I think you should be used threading concept in your project. call a function inside thread and call after certain time period as your require.

hi i did that and really it will helpful to me but i need to create one window application in which i have a grid view in which i need to show what are the services are there and what is the status for that services either is is stop or started, can someone help me on that....

Excellent article. I need to do something similar but checking scheduled times stored in a database(If ScheduledTime <= DateTime.Now then Execute action(Funtion stored in DLL but I need to call it from a WCF Service method)). I get these scheduled times using a function implemented in a DLL that it is called from a WCF Service where a method that implements the service call that function in the DLL. Please, some help about how to do that?

it says "Access is denied." Please help. I'm a beginner.

This is an excellent article. That helped me develop one service for network monitoring. However, I am still not clear on how to install the service on other computers?

very useful for me to learn window service

It's a good example. But how to set this to run weekly? Do I need to put the value of the "Interval" by calculating in seconds....it quite difficult!

It's very helpful for beginners...!!

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hello i am tring your above example and it works fine but as soon as i am trying to connect with sql db it doesn't wotk. how to resolve it?

Best article ever

Nice...!!!

Hi Naresh, am trying to get DataSet OnStrart() of service but while service in Debug mode it getting the DataSet but after install this service couldn't start.

But how can we access this service from another windows form application. For eg. what if I want to call some method which is implemented in the service

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Job well done!

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Useful for me...Thanks..

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Thanks dude you helped me out ...

Good one..

Helpful article for a beginner too...

Time worth spend to read this article!

Very Helpful Article........

Solution for Installation failed : Go to "Start" >> "All Programs" >> "Microsoft Visual Studio 2012" >> "Visual Studio Tools" then right click "Developer Command Prompt for VS2012" and Run as Administrator.

nice article sir..

Very nice Article with simple explanation....Thanks Naresh...!

I think the Log's Stream Writer sould be intitialized in a static constructer, so we don't have to re-create it every time.

what is much better to use? Timer or Thread..How can I use Thread instead of Timer..

i wrote some functions to update my database in ' Library.cs ' file , But it is not working properly . WriteErrorLog function works correctly .

good article ..

very helpful for me Naresh Avari sir. Thanks..

Very good article...........

Naresh, You forgot to mention in your tutorial that you should start the developer console with ADMIN priviledges, or else you get the security exception.

I got the same error , when i try to install exe "InstallUtil.exe "TestWindowService.exe"" its getting Rollback

Very thanks to Naresh Avari . this are very helpful for me. but when i run this code i got this exception(System.Security.SecurityException ) during service installation process.and installation is rollback can you help me to resolve? Exception description says : The source was not found,but some or all event logs could not be searched inaccessible logs: security.

NIce Article..It Helped me a lot

Superb work.

Good Article

When I build the solution,I still cant find the .exe file for service in the folder where project is located??

Well explained Naresh, Welcome to the C# Corner.