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Windows service not seen in services even after successful installation

There is one windows service which is installed on one of our servers and working fine.
I tried to replicate the same on the other server, so I took the exe setup from one server to another and tried to install the windows service using installUtil.exe
It is giving me
The Commit phase was completed successfully. The transacted install has been completed.
but the service cannot be found in the services list and it is also giving me this message at the time of installation.
No public installers with the RunInstallerAttribute.Yes, the attribute could be found in the xyz.exe assembly.
Remove InstallState file because there are no installers.
and I am not sure why this is happening? I tried googling but most of them have given the solution to add installer to the project.
But if the installer is not added how the service is running on the first server
is there another way to install the service?
Could it be related to the Windows OS version?

Visual Studio - Registration of the app failed after uninstalling app

I am developing a Universal Windows 10 app and I get an annoying problem every time I try to run project after I uninstall the app from windows start menu. The scenario is:
I run project on local machine - app is running good;
I press Shift+F5 to stop runing;
Go to Windows start menu and uninstall just installed app;
Run app again from Visual Studio;
Get error 1>Error : DEP0700 : Registration of the app failed. An internal error occurred with error 0x80073D05. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=235160 for help diagnosing app deployment issues. (0x80073cf6)
NOTE: sometimes Clean Solution + Rebuild Solution helps, but sometimes only system restart solves the problem. Is this an official bug or I am missing something?

I was facing the similar problem, and as per this link
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/566e53ec-2020-4969-9f17-f0a5a916f027/error-dep0700-registration-of-the-app-failed?forum=winappswithcsharp
we need to locate the app`s package in C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Packages and delete it. This error occurs when after installing if the system is not able to delete the complete package from Local.

This is not the official bug in this case.
Please check if your project is build before and then deployed (please see screenshots below) and let me know whether problem remains and what is the version of the Windows platfrom you use.
You can check it using search window and type "winver":

Service cannot be started. The service process could not connect to the service controller when start service [duplicate]

Hi I am trying to write just a quick demo service. I am following the tutorial from MSDN here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zt39148a.aspx
So this tutorial basically sets up an basic service that writes to the event log. It also configures the installation and adds a setup project. So I have tried the installation on a couple of computers, one running Server 2008 R2 and one running Windows 7.
Basically what happens is the setup runs fine, but the service does not show up in the service list. I also checked the event log and receive an error with a description of:
"The service process could not connect to the service controller"
However there is no other information about the error. Does anyone have any idea how to get the service to show up in the service list and to run? Thanks.
One other item I could mention is that the custom log for the service is created however there are no entries.

The message "Service cannot be started. The service process could not connect to the service controller" is logged in the event log everytime you attempt to run a windows service from Visual Studio. Unlike most projects you create in Visual Studio, Windows Service projects cannot be run directly from the development environment by pressing F5. See the following msdn link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sd8zc8ha.aspx

Problem solved. I didn't follow the last part of the tutorial for adding a custom action :) I thought at first it was optional however it appears that is the final part of installing the service. Works perfect now.

You need to add an Installer to your service.
Go to the designer view of your service. click on the "Add Installer" link. This adds objects that are mandatory for the service installation.
Last thing is to make sure you run your installutil.exe with Administrator privileges.

Just uncheck "Enable the Visual Studio hosting process" works for me!

Installing a Windows Service -Setup.exe fails

There is a weird issue I am facing. I created my first windows service looking through various blogs and tutorials.
Then created setup for that adding installer etc. It works fine while installing , un-installing via Visual Studio but it fails when i deploy it .
Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
* Activation of C:\Users\bhuvint\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\CPNS Library\ServicePackage\CommonPushNotificationWindowsService.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
+ You cannot start application CommonPushNotificationWindowsService from this location because it is already installed from a different location.
+ You cannot start application CommonPushNotificationWindowsService from location file:///C:/Users/bhuvint/Documents/Visual%20Studio%202010/Projects/CPNS%20Library/ServicePackage/CommonPushNotificationWindowsService.application it is already installed from location file:///C:/inetpub/wwwroot/ServicePackage/CommonPushNotificationWindowsService.application. You can start it from location file:///C:/inetpub/wwwroot/ServicePackage/CommonPushNotificationWindowsService.application or you can uninstall it and reinstall it from location file:///C:/Users/bhuvint/Documents/Visual%20Studio%202010/Projects/CPNS%20Library/ServicePackage/CommonPushNotificationWindowsService.application.
I have already un-installed the service and trying to install it from the deployed service in the same pc to test. But it fails with above error.
I feel i have deployed the windows service the wrong way. Could you guys please suggest how to deploy a windows service ?? (I have looked through net. All suggest building it and installing it from visual studios. But how to publish it is the thing which i need.)
Please help asap.

Possibly you built the setup project before uninstalling the preovious service. In that case you can't use the new setup to uninstall the service, since the setup won't be the same and can't be able to access the service installed.
You should try to go to a previous version of your project and uninstall the service and for the future unistall the service each time you're building your setup project.
This happened to me several times.

Run visual studio in debug mode, and in your properties of your service project goto tab build events in Post-Build event command line and add a -d so you can run your service without installing it, it will run as an console app

The LocalService account acts as a non-privileged user on the local computer, and presents anonymous credentials to any remote server. Use the other accounts with caution, as they run with higher privileges and increase your risk of attacks from malicious code.
If your service application will not install correctly, check to make sure that the ServiceName property for the service class is set to the same value as is shown in the installer for that service. The value must be the same in both instances in order for your service to install correctly.
NoteNote
You can also look at the installation logs to get feedback on the installation process.
You should also check to determine whether you have another service with the same name already installed. Service names must be unique for installation to succeed.

STUPIDITY PERSONIFIED
As i told i was deploying my service. So this published code had a "setup.exe" file to it. Now I had already created a setup project for the windows service , which i was using for the installing , uninstalling . And i din't know (These words needs courage !!) that msi file created is required to install the windows service. So as i got through the folder structure of the setup project. I came across the .msi file . And hence the problem got solved. The Main problem was :
Me not knowing to use setup projects
And I confused setup.exe with the published windows service with the setup of windows service.
I am really sorry for stealing bandwidth off your precious time. Thanks to all for the valuable inputs.

C#: Running and Debugging a Windows Service

I am currently building a Windows Service with C# and I just can't figure out how to debug it.
I am building it and then registering with installutil:
> installutil MusicRepo_FileMonitor.exe
The Commit phase completed successfully.
The transacted install has completed.
And as you can see above, it is supposedly being registered successfully, but I can't find it in services.smc. I have also tried starting the service with net start [ServiceName] but it's telling me The service name is invalid. so I guess it's not finding it.
For the record, I'm on Vista and I'm developing the ws with .Net 3.5
[Update]
Solution

Try Task Manager and see if you see MusicRepo_FileMonitor.exe. If not, then the service is definitely not running.
Alternatively, in Visual Studio, Debug > Attach to Process, check show processes from all users, and see if its there.

Upon further research, I realized that I had no Installer attached to the service, so the problem was now fixed by adding an Installer.
Here is the tutorial I used to add a Service Installer and so on.