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I have created a WCF service; its working fine in Visual studio. I have added a Project Installer in the same project which basically has an instance of System.ServiceProcess.ServiceProcessInstaller and also an instance of System.ServiceProcess.ServiceInstaller. Then I also created setup project for it. The setup process seem to work fine; however this service just does not show up “services snap-in”. Any ideas what i might be missing ?
The WCF service itself is not a Windows service that will show up in that snap-in!
You might choose to build a self-hosting Windows NT Service – but that’s an additional step – so the Windows NT Service would be hosting the WCF service – so you have two services here in play. Only the Windows NT Service (which typically derives from
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase) will be installable as a Windows Service and show up in the service snap-in.See: MSDN How to: HOst a WCF Services in a Managed Windows Service for more information and code samples.