Question

I have written a windows service in C#. I am able to install and run it locally on my 64-bit Windows 7 machine.

When I install it on my remote virtual private server (Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, 64-bit), I get the following:

“Error 1053: The MyService service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion”

The weird thing is that this message shows immediately. It should take 30 seconds for such a message to show.

I have checked the windows event logs, and it shows me no further information.

Answer 1

Thanks for all your answers!

It turns out that I did not have .net framework 4.5 installed, and that is what I was targeting.

Still, it was a very strange error, and I am surprised it installed at all.