Install Windows Service created in Visual Studio

Looking at:

No public installers with the RunInstallerAttribute.Yes attribute could be found in the C:\Users\myusername\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\TestService\TestSe rvice\obj\x86\Debug\TestService.exe assembly.

It looks like you may not have an installer class in your code. This is a class that inherits from Installer that will tell installutil how to install your executable as a service.

P.s. I have my own little self-installing/debuggable Windows Service template here which you can copy code from or use: Debuggable, Self-Installing Windows Service

You need to open the Service.cs file in the designer, right click it and choose the menu-option "Add Installer".

It won't install right out of the box... you need to create the installer class first.

Some reference on service installer:

How to: Add Installers to Your Service Application

Quite old... but this is what I am talking about:

Windows Services in C#: Adding the Installer (part 3)

By doing this, a ProjectInstaller.cs will be automaticaly created. Then you can double click this, enter the designer, and configure the components:

• serviceInstaller1 has the properties of the service itself: Description, DisplayName, ServiceName and StartType are the most important.

• serviceProcessInstaller1 has this important property: Account that is the account in which the service will run.

For example:

this.serviceProcessInstaller1.Account = ServiceAccount.LocalSystem;