How do I configure the name of a Windows service upon installation (or easily at compile time)?

Question

I\'ve created a Windows service in C#, installed it on a server and it is running fine.

Now I want to install the same service again, but running from a different wo

Answer 1

You can't pass this in as a command line arg, since InstallUtil doesn't provide the right hooks for that.

However, you can make your service installer read the ServiceName from a config file. If you look at some code for a typical ServiceInstaller, you'll see it's just a matter of having the appropriate DisplayName and ServiceName properties setup at runtime. These could easily be read from a configuration file instead of being hard-coded.