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posted @ Tuesday, August 09, 2005 11:26 AM
Along the lines of "Don't forget this!"... I finally found an article that simply tells you how to create a setup project for a windows service. I made this way more difficult than it needed to be for myself by doing tons of googling on phrases similar to "Installing a windows service." All the links I got referred to using the "installutil" command line call to install a service, which is not very end-user friendly! I started to think it couldn't be done, until I realized my former co-worker and all-around .net genius,
Steve Eichert, had done it about a million times. I refined my google search to include the phrase "setup project" and found the official msdn article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816169/