Installing a Topshelf application as a Windows service

Solution 1:

Run your service.exe install to install the service.

See the Topshelf Command Line Reference documentation for more information.

Solution 2:

1. Start Visual Studio and create a new C# Console-Application
2. Right click on references and go to manage NuGet-Packages
3. Download and install Topshelf via NuGet
4. Paste the Code below into your application and include all imports.
5. Switch from “Debug” mode to “Release” and build the application.
6. Run cmd.exe as administrator

7. Navigate the console to

   .\myConsoleApplication\bin\Release\
   

8. Run the command

   .\myConsoleApplication.exe install
   

9. Run the command

   .\myConsoleApplication.exe start
   

Code:

using System;
using System.Threading;
using Topshelf;
using Topshelf.Runtime;

namespace MyConsoleApplication
{
    public class MyService
    {
        public MyService(HostSettings settings)
        {
        }

        private SemaphoreSlim _semaphoreToRequestStop;
        private Thread _thread;

        public void Start()
        {
            _semaphoreToRequestStop = new SemaphoreSlim(0);
            _thread = new Thread(DoWork);
            _thread.Start();
        }

        public void Stop()
        {
            _semaphoreToRequestStop.Release();
            _thread.Join();
        }

        private void DoWork()
        {
            while (true)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("doing work..");
                if (_semaphoreToRequestStop.Wait(500))
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Stopped");
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
    }

    public class Program
    {
        public static void Main()
        {

            HostFactory.Run(x =>                                 
            {
                x.StartAutomatically(); // Start the service automatically

                x.EnableServiceRecovery(rc =>
                {
                    rc.RestartService(1); // restart the service after 1 minute
                });


                x.Service<MyService>(s =>
                {
                    s.ConstructUsing(hostSettings => new MyService(hostSettings));
                    s.WhenStarted(tc => tc.Start());             
                    s.WhenStopped(tc => tc.Stop());               
                });
                x.RunAsLocalSystem();                            

                x.SetDescription("MyDescription");        
                x.SetDisplayName("MyDisplayName");                       
                x.SetServiceName("MyServiceName");    

            });                                                 
        }
    }
}

Solution 3:

Browse to the folder and run the command:

AppName.exe install

You must run your command prompt as an Admin.