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