I Want To Install A Win Service Through Cmd Using C# Code , I Am Getting The Error Unable To Install .

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System.Diagnostics.Process proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
ProcessStartInfo procStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
procStartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";
procStartInfo.Arguments = "/c cd../..";
//procStartInfo.Arguments = "/c cd c:\\windows\\";
procStartInfo.Arguments = "/c cd C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v4.0.30319";
procStartInfo.Arguments = "installutil/i /c C:\\Users\\kk\\Desktop\\Winservice\\sampleService.exe"

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Nov-15 11:47am

Don't use "CMD"; it is totally irrelevant.
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User 10668410 · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-29T04:58:00

Solution 1

If that is a copy and paste an obvious problem is:

C#

procStartInfo.Arguments = "installutil/i /c C:\\Users\\kk\\Desktop\\Winservice\\sampleService.exe"

Should be

C#

procStartInfo.Arguments = installutil /i /c "C:\\Users\\kk\\Desktop\\Winservice\\sampleService.exe"

Also, are you sure you should be escaping the \

You might find that this works fine:

C#

procStartInfo.Arguments = installutil /i /c "C:\Users\kk\Desktop\Winservice\sampleService.exe"

Read this: Install a .Net Service.

You should also read this article: InstallUtil MSDN

You may find this interesting: Installing a Windows Service using P Invoke in C#

Posted 29-Nov-15 4:58am

User 10668410

Updated 29-Nov-15 5:09am

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johannesnestler 30-Nov-15 10:19am

Good links, but your "obvious problem" analysis seems a bit faulted. First OP states that he get's "unable to install" error. - so no, his parameter-Syntax isn't wrong, I'd say...
this is not compilable: procStartInfo.Arguments = installutil /i /c "C:\\Users\\kk\\Desktop\\Winservice\\sampleService.exe"
You may meant something like this? procStartInfo.Arguments = "installutil /i /c \"C:\\Users\\kk\\Desktop\\Winservice\\sampleService.exe\"" - a quoted path inside the Argument string - but in OP's case not needed because he has no spaces in his path - sure good code looks not like this - but that's not OP's problem at hand.

[no name] 30-Nov-15 11:23am

Please ramble somewhere else.

johannesnestler 1-Dec-15 6:58am

;) - Ok...