Re: Troubles with services

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From: user
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 22:29

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Stefano Bonifazi wrote:
> ... from within another application I would like to install my service
> (and then starting it), but not launching it from ShellExecuteEx (or
> similar) with the "/INSTALL" parameter, as I would like to check if it's
> installed successfully! But I didn't find any useful API...
What about CreateService()?

> So I thought to install it that way, and the using the OpenSCManager and
> OpenService functions to check the installation result, but OpenService
> always fails and GetLastError always reports ERROR_SERVICE_DOES_NOT_EXIST
> (by the way what's the difference with ERROR_INVALID_NAME?)
I'm just guessing, but maybe the command line method is installing the 
service without actually starting it? (I think you'd get 
ERROR_INVALID_NAME if you passed a service name that was too long or 
that contained invalid characters, \ or /.)

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