Aloha,
I've been trying to install a Windows service during runtime in Visual C# without using any seperate programs like installutil.exe. The MSDN library barely gives any information on this, always referring to installutil.exe or a full MSI installer package, neither of which can be done in runtime.
I'm wondering if it's even possible to do this during runtime. Perhaps it would be better (but messier) to directly alter the registry perhaps? Even so, I'd much rather prefer the cleaner was of using the proper classes and methods provided. (Even though the former might be quicker) An idea I had was to create a class with inherits from the System.Configuration.Install class, adding the ServiceProjectInstaller and ServiceInstaller to my class' Installers collection and then manually calling my class' Install function (which writelines some info and then calls base.Install ) but sadly this doesn't work.
The ServiceProcessInstaller and ServiceInstaller are both properly defined and the service successfully installs when I use installutil.exe on the resulting executable.
Thanks in advance,
DLSeth