Allthough its of no use to me as i would not be able to make a decent service... Still wanted to say that is an awesome article, definitely something i will look into more now i know the basics :D thanks!

hi jayesh,

  i followed the steps given by you but i am unable to install the service.

whenever i double click installutil.exe it open some xml code

and when i run my program it gioves error service not started

i am working on win xp .

will this code work on win xp.

 

thanks

ravi verma

hi jayesh,

  i followed the steps given by you but i am unable to install the service.

whenever i double click installutil.exe it open some xml code

and when i run my program it gives error service not started

i am working on win xp .

will this code work on win xp.

 

thanks

ravi verma

Gr8 help Jayesh Sir !

it works smoothly; do exactly as written... kindly use double qoutes as well as indicated by him and copy the exact path from your own explorer window to .net command prompt

my worked though after 2-3 failures

cheers

I first tried first method without success so I ran from the command prompt and it worked as advertised.

I this example installutil.exe is located here "c:\installutil.exe

yourService.exe is the Your  Service  

the code:

Try

Process.Start(

"c:\installutil.exe", ChrW(34) & "C:\yourService\yourService\bin\Debug\yourService.exe" & ChrW(34))

Catch ex As Exception

MsgBox(ex.Message)

End Try

 

You can get a Windows Service Project Template from http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=4511&lngWId=10

Can this article be written for Visual Basic.Net 2005? It doesn't work if I follow it using VB 2005. :(

If you're having problems getting this tutorial to work with VS 2005, it's probably because you need to switch to using a different Timer class.  You can view more info here:
http://weblogs.asp.net/sibrahim/archive/2004/01/13/58429.aspx

A half-decent example of how to use the Threading.Timer class can be found here:
http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=dotnet&seqNum=203&rl=1

Hope this helps someone else...took me a couple hours to figure out what was going on!

I am using VS 2005/ .net 2.0 and when I try to create a project in vb.net environment, I do not see the Windows Service template. I however can see the template when I use the c# environment. Can anybody tell me what could be the issue. Thanks.

Hi Archu,
 I think i may be a Service pack Problem...Here in my system its showing the Windows Service template...
if u already installed Service Pack or not u try to install it.

Good Luck

Regards
Hari K......

select otherlanguage then visual basic then click on windows option then u will find the windows service templete  on the right box.

try it hope it wiill solve ur problem

kaushik