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Creating a Windows Service Installer

In order to register your Windows service with the operating system, you need to add an installer to

your project that will contain the necessary code to allow you to register the service. To do so, sim-

ply right-click the Windows service designer surface and select Add Installer (see Figure 25-16). 

Figure 25-16.

Adding an installer for the Windows service

Once you have done so, you will see two components have been added to a new designer sur-

face. The first component (named serviceProcessInstaller1 by default) represents a type that is

able to install a new Windows service on the target machine. Select this type on the designer and

use the Properties window to set the Account property to LocalSystem.

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The second component (named serviceInstaller1) represents a type that will install your

particular Windows service. Again, using the Properties window, change the ServiceName property

to Math Order Service (as you might have guessed, this represents the friendly display name of

the registered Windows service), set the StartType property to Automatic, and add a friendly

description of your Windows service via the Description property. At this point you can compile

your application.