Re: Same win service with different display names and description

Eddie,

I'd separate the service into two projects - a class library with the
majority of the code and a service that is sort of a shell around the
class library. Then I'd create the other services as shells around the
class library. That gets you the configurability as well as reusing the
same code in all the services.

Regards,
David

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From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics.
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eddie Lascu
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 7:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Same win service with different display names
and description

Hi there,
 
I have one windows service that I need to deploy 4 times on a production
server. Each service will control a different interface. The interfaces
are
100% similar so that is why it made sense to develop only one service.
Now,
that I need to deploy them, I also need to instantiate them with
different
display names and descriptions. The display name and the description are
properties of the serviceInstaller object. Is there a way to change
those
two properties other than changing them in my development environment
and
then recompile the whole service? Is there some kind of configuration
file
for the service itself where these properties would be stored and then
read
by the service during the installation phase?
 
Thanks for your help,
Eddie

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