Creating an installer in Visual Studio 2013

Question

I've created a simple project in Visual Studio, using the following tutorial as a guide:

Walkthrough: Creating a Windows Service Application in the Component Designer
(It won't let me create a link to it yet, will verify account and try later)

My project is simple:  It creates a Windows service that calls a batch file when starting, and a different batch file when stopping.. it's literally just a few lines of code.

I created an installer, following the tutorial, which installs the service by Right-clicking the service within Visual Studio, and clicking Install.

Instead, I need to be able to create an installer that works on other Windows machines, without installing Visual Studio and installing within the project itself.

Is there a way to create an installer (exe, msi?) that can then be used on other computers?  When I try and create an InstallShield project, it redirects to a blank site.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can add an installer to your project by right click "Add installer".

Then command line to install your service is:

(Path to .NET Libraries .. e.g. C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727)

INSTALLUTIL myservice.exe and then it'll ask for credentials

SC is a more generic solution for installing any kind of executable as a service