Debugging windows services

Question

I have created a windows service and installed it manually. Later started the service from Services tool. Now I want to dubug the windows service application from Visual st

Answer 1

Debugging services requires certain permissions:

Setting Debug Permissions - Debugging a System Service

If you can't get the necessary permission another option to debug your service is via System.Diagnostics.Trace. You can monitor the messages being traced by your service with Sysinternal's DbgView.