Question

I have succesfully installed my service using InstallUtil, but I would like my service to run in its own process instead of in svchost. If I was doing this via say winmgmts, I could just pass OWN_PROCESS to it (see here). How can I do this using a System.Configuration.Install.Installer?

My current code:

  [RunInstaller(true)]
  public partial class MyServiceInstaller : Installer
  {
    private ServiceInstaller serviceInstaller;
    private ServiceProcessInstaller processInstaller;

    public MyServiceInstaller ()
    {
      InitializeComponent();

      processInstaller = new ServiceProcessInstaller();
      serviceInstaller = new ServiceInstaller();

      processInstaller.Account = ServiceAccount.LocalSystem;

      serviceInstaller.StartType = ServiceStartMode.Manual;
      serviceInstaller.ServiceName = "MyService";

      Installers.Add(serviceInstaller);
      Installers.Add(processInstaller);
    }
  }

Answer 1

I am going to have to assume that this is not possible with this method. I long ago simply used another method (sc.exe) to accomplish this.