How to View the Windows form application In Windows Service Application running as service

Question

I have a Windows Service Application which contains one Service.cs and one Windows Form Application.Now as per my requirement i have to make a setup installer of this application which i did using Visual Studio Setup project under Deployment Section.

Now if i will install my setup Windows Service file will be added as Service and we can see it and its working fine also but i am not seeing the windows form application.

In the control panel add/remove program my application has been added as i am seeing it but windows form application is not showing in All programs of start button.

Please help me . Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If this is urgent:

In the File System Editor for the setup project, it should show the target machine's file system. By default, the primary outputs you've specified will be set to install to the "Application Folder". But what you want to do is to look under the "User's Programs Menu" (I can't remember if this shows up by default - if not, right click "File System on Target Machine", "Add Special Folder" and select this folder).

Then, in the right-hand pane, right click and choose "Create New Shortcut", navigate down through "Application Folder", select the windows forms application and hit OK. Then give it a suitable name.

If this isn't urgent - go and find a better setup tool and learn how to do similar things to the above using that tool. Visual Studio 2010 was the last version to include the Setup project support, so spending time learning this tool now is wasted time. Better to find a tool that will continue to work as you upgrade VS versions. I'd normally suggest WiX since it comes at a great price (free) but it does have a learning curve (since you author the setup in XML).