Question

Right,

So I have a Windows service written in C#. I’ve already found the ‘ProjectInstaller.cs’ where I do some stuff, like set dependencies and service name during install.

What I’m not finding is how to hook into the uninstall process of the server.

While I know there’s little workarounds here and there, such as just trashing the key from the registry, I’d like to account for a user (with local admin rights) uninstalling the service with sc or installutil.exe – essentially, I simply want the service to write a statement to a database saying “Hey, I’m being uninstalled by bobsmith”

Possible? Doable?

Update – This is what I have in my ProjectInstaller.cs – not working…

namespace blahblah
{
[RunInstaller(true)]
public partial class ProjectInstaller : Installer
{
    public ProjectInstaller()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        BeforeUninstall += new InstallEventHandler(ProjectInstaller_BeforeUninstall);
    }

    private void ProjectInstaller_BeforeUninstall(object sender, InstallEventArgs e)
    {
    /// do stuff...
    }

Answer 1

Add a ServiceInstaller object in your designer (if one is not already there) and subscribe to the BeforeUninstall event