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<p>When you create a new Windows Service project and try to debug it,
Visual Studio will show you a Windows Service Start Failure with the
message <code>Cannot Start Service from the command line or debugger. A Windows Service must first be installed (using installutil.exe) and then started with the Server Explorer, Windows Services Administrative tool or the NET START command.</code>.</p>
<p><a href="/post/images/2010-03-13-cannot-start-service-from-the-command-line-or-debugger-a-windows-service-must-first-be-installed-using-installutil-exe-serviceError.JPG"><img src="/post/images/thumbnails/2010-03-13-cannot-start-service-from-the-command-line-or-debugger-a-windows-service-must-first-be-installed-using-installutil-exe-serviceError.JPG" alt=""></a><br>
The trick my team and I use to workaround this problem, makes use of the
service <code>Debug</code> flag. If the <code>Debug</code> flag is on, we just start the service
by using our own public <code>Start</code> method. When the <code>OnStart</code> event is fired in
the service itself, we call the same public <code>Start</code> method.</p>
<p>This goes in your service.</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre style="color:#586e75;background-color:#eee8d5;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4"><code class="language-csharp" data-lang="csharp"><span style="color:#859900">protected</span> <span style="color:#859900">override</span> <span style="color:#859900">void</span> <span style="color:#268bd2">OnStart</span>(<span style="color:#859900;font-weight:bold">string</span>[] <span style="color:#268bd2">args</span>)
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<span style="color:#93a1a1;font-style:italic">//Start!
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</code></pre></div><p>And this goes in <code>Program.cs</code>.</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre style="color:#586e75;background-color:#eee8d5;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4"><code class="language-csharp" data-lang="csharp"><span style="color:#859900">namespace</span> <span style="color:#268bd2">UdpListener</span>
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<span style="color:#859900">static</span> <span style="color:#859900">class</span> <span style="color:#cb4b16">Program</span>
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</code></pre></div><p>You can set the <code>Debug</code> flag of your service in your service properties.</p>
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<p>The only problem with this solution is that you can&rsquo;t debug your <code>OnStop</code>
event but this hasn&rsquo;t been an issue for us so far.</p>

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