How to automatically start your service after install?

Question

How do you automatically start a service after running an install from a Visual Studio Setup Project?

I just figured this one out and thought I would share the answe

Answer 1

Based on the snippets above, my ProjectInstaller.cs file wound up looking like this for a service named FSWServiceMgr.exe. The service did start after installation. As a side note, remember to click on the Properties tab (not right-click) when the setup project is selected in the Solution Explorer to set the company and so forth.

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using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Configuration.Install;
using System.ServiceProcess;

namespace FSWManager {
    [RunInstaller(true)]
    public partial class ProjectInstaller : Installer {
        public ProjectInstaller() {
            InitializeComponent();
            this.FSWServiceMgr.AfterInstall += FSWServiceMgr_AfterInstall;
        }

        static void FSWServiceMgr_AfterInstall(object sender, InstallEventArgs e) {
            new ServiceController("FSWServiceMgr").Start();
        }
    }
}