Inno Setup for Windows service?

c#, inno-setup, windows-services

Solution

You don't need `installutil.exe` and probably you don't even have rights to redistribute it.

Here is the way I'm doing it in my application:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Configuration.Install; 
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection; 
using System.ServiceProcess;
using System.Text;

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    if (System.Environment.UserInteractive)
    {
        string parameter = string.Concat(args);
        switch (parameter)
        {
            case "--install":
                ManagedInstallerClass.InstallHelper(new string[] { Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location });
                break;
            case "--uninstall":
                ManagedInstallerClass.InstallHelper(new string[] { "/u", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location });
                break;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        ServiceBase.Run(new WindowsService());
    }
}

Basically you can have your service to install/uninstall on its own by using `ManagedInstallerClass` as shown in my example.

Then it's just matter of adding into your InnoSetup script something like this:

[Run]
Filename: "{app}\MYSERVICE.EXE"; Parameters: "--install"

[UninstallRun]
Filename: "{app}\MYSERVICE.EXE"; Parameters: "--uninstall"

Problem

I have a .Net Windows service. I want to create an installer to install that windows service. Basically, it has to do the following: - Pack `installutil.exe` (Is it required?) - Run `installutil.exe` MyService.exe - Start MyService Also, I want to provide an uninstaller which runs the following command: ``` installutil.exe /u MyService.exe ``` How to do these using Inno Setup?

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