No public installers with the runinstallerattribute.yes attribute could be found

Question

Problem :

Whenever I create the new Windows Service in my Visual Studio 2010, I often face the message stating to use the InstallUtil and after that net start to run the service.

I have tried the below steps:

1. I created the new project File -> New -> Project -> Windows Service

2. Gave the Project Name: MyTestService

3. Build my project as is (Service1 constructor, OnStart, OnStop)

4. I opened the command prompt, and ran "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\InstallUtil.exe" MyTestService.exe

5. Ran  the net start MyTestService.

The Output of my step 5

The service name is invalid.More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2185.

Answer 1

 Please be sure that your ProjectInstaller class should be public. To be very precise I added the event handlers to my ProjectInstaller.Designer.cs, as shown below :

this.serviceProcessInstaller1.BeforeInstall += new System.Configuration.Install.InstallEventHandler(this.serviceProcessInstaller1_BeforeInstall);

I think during your automatical process of creating the handler function in the ProjectInstaller.cs it might have changed my class definition from

public class ProjectInstaller : System.Configuration.Install.Installer

to the

partial class ProjectInstaller : System.Configuration.Install.Installer

so replacing your public keyword with the partial. That is why, in order to fix the issue it must be done as

public partial class ProjectInstaller : System.Configuration.Install.Installer

Also note that I use the Visual Studio 2013 Community edition.