Has anyone had experience with TopShelf when building Windows Services?
I keep running into this error when trying to start the service,
“Topshelf.HostConfigurators.WindowsServiceDescription service has not been installed yet.”
The build, installer, installation, and all those steps are completed and the service appears in the services list in Windows Server, yet when I click on the service and attempt to start it, this exception is thrown. The full error message is shown below.
INFO 10:23:08 Starting up as a winservice application
FATAL 10:23:08 The Topshelf.HostConfigurators.WindowsServiceDescription service has not been installed yet. Please run ‘RIS.ModelGenerator.Scheduler, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null install’.
ERROR 10:23:08 The service exited abnormally with an exception
Topshelf.Exceptions.ConfigurationException: The Topshelf.HostConfigurators.WindowsServiceDescription service has not been installed yet. Please run ‘RIS.ModelGenerator.Scheduler, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null install’.
at Topshelf.Windows.WindowsServiceHost.Run() in d:\BuildAgent-01\work\799c08e77fef999d\src\Topshelf\OS\Windows\WindowsServiceHost.cs:line 56
at Topshelf.HostFactory.Run(Action`1 configure) in d:\BuildAgent-01\work\799c08e77fef999d\src\Topshelf\Config\HostFactory.cs:line 45
It appears, that I had a version that just doesn’t really work (which appears to be the latest version). I had to roll back (via NuGet thanksfully) to a previous version, pre v2.0 in order to resolve my issue. It also appeared that the project I was working on was hooked into some pre v2.0 features/methods, thus the ensuing problem.
Thanks to Jeff Schumacher for the extra assist on this problem. Hopefully the TopShelf software is updated to not have these disparities in current versions.