Service not showing in Services.msc but shows in taskmgr under services tab

[Scott Danks]

I built a service that works well.  I started it and it is running.  But when I go to services.msc, it does not show up.  So I went to taskmgr and found the running process and clicked go to services and it shows the service running under the taskmgr services tab.  Did I miss some configuration somewhere?  I did notice that under the Group name it shows N/A enstead of the LocalService.  Thanks.

[Kijana Woodard]

In Hostfactory.Run, did you set

                x.SetServiceName("Foo");

                x.SetDisplayName("Foo Service");

                x.SetDescription("This is the Foo Service. It is FooBar.");

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Scott Danks <sdank...@gmail.com> wrote:

I built a service that works well.  I started it and it is running.  But when I go to services.msc, it does not show up.  So I went to taskmgr and found the running process and clicked go to services and it shows the service running under the taskmgr services tab.  Did I miss some configuration somewhere?  I did notice that under the Group name it shows N/A enstead of the LocalService.  Thanks.

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[Scott Danks]

I followed an example that updates a textfile every 10 seconds.  It is working.  But here is the code:

 HostFactory.Run(Sub(configurator)

                            configurator.Service(Of TimedNotifier)(Sub(service)

                                                                       service.ConstructUsing(Function(factory)

                                                                                                  Return New TimedNotifier

                                                                                              End Function)

                                                                       service.WhenStarted(Function(notifier, hostControl) As Boolean

                                                                                               Return notifier.Start(hostControl)

                                                                                           End Function)

                                                                       service.WhenStopped(Function(notifier, hostControl) As Boolean

                                                                                               Return notifier.Stop(hostControl)

                                                                                           End Function)

                                                                   End Sub)

                            configurator.RunAsLocalSystem()

                            configurator.SetDisplayName("Sample Service: Timed Notifier")

                            configurator.SetDescription("This sample service will notify you of the " & _

                              "current time every 10 seconds.")

                            configurator.SetServiceName("TimedNotifier")

                        End Sub)

I see TimedNotifier in the taskmgr but not in the services.msc  Dont know if it had to do with RunAsLocalSystem or not.  Maybe I cant see services because I am logged in as a admin but not the local admin?

[Dru Sellers]

How are you running the service?

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[Kijana Woodard]

Just to eliminate the easy stuff, did you install your service [eg run "TimedNotifier.exe install" at the command line]?

And you don't see "Sample Service: Timed Notifier" in services.msc either?

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Scott Danks <sdank...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Scott Danks]

Ok.  That was it.  It looks like if you are using the services.msc it shows up as what you named the program in the SetDisplayName, but if you use the Taskmgr it shows up on the service tab as what you named the program using SetServiceName.  Obviously I need to just set them the same.  But problem solved.  Thanks for the direction.

[Scott Danks]

Thanks for the post Dru.  It turns out that the two service display programs services.msc and taskmgr both show the services as different names.  See the post I made to Kijana below.  I think the solution is to just set the name the same for both SetDisplayName and SetServiceName.

Thanks,

Scott