If you do not want your windows service to prompt for Username/Password, go to `Installer Class(Design Mode)` of the service, then right click on `ServiceProcessInstaller -&gt; Properties`; set `Account` as `Local Service`.

Now use the `installutil` command. It will not ask for Username/Password.

Right click ServiceProcessInstaller file - &gt; go to properties - &gt; Choose account as LocalService.


[![enter image description here][1]][1]


  [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/rYinc.png

**Every process or service in windows runs under a particular windows user account.**

The user account is used as identity for any action performed by the service or the process. If your process or service requires to do any task which requires security privileges, it will be granted only on basis of the user-identity associated with the process/service.

&gt; Say you&#39;re running you service under a
&gt; user named &quot;SVCUSER&quot; and the service
&gt; requires to do disk I/O in any
&gt; location of the disk. If the user
&gt; &quot;SVCUSER&quot; does not have rights or
&gt; authorization to perform disk I/O for
&gt; the given location, the service will
&gt; not be able perform the operation and
&gt; throw related security-exception.

Your windows service needs a user name and password for the same reason that you are asked for your username and password on login. To identify you and to set your access levels and permissions on windows.

This is not a problem, it is supposed to work this way.

Add this line in `ProjectInstaller.Designer.cs` file.

    this.serviceProcessInstaller1.Account = System.ServiceProcess.ServiceAccount.LocalSystem;

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Is this normal?

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I have recently found myself in the position of explaining an (In-House) application I have written to two candidates my company likes to hire in order to assist in maintenance and adding minor features.

It is the first &quot;production&quot; application I have written, it has 45k LOCs and I spent almost two years of &quot;solo&quot; development on it. I am fairly young (18) and wrote the application from scratch while being contracted as stand-in for a former developer who left the company. Unexperienced in designing applications of this size, I tried to use common architecture- and design-patterns. 

Today I know I have done some serious over-engineering, e.g. using a disconnected change tracking architecture instead of the Unit Of Work pattern, which the chosen ORM has  already implemented. I will probably never have to go &quot;real&quot; three tiers.

Both candidates have 10 years+ background in In-House Application Development with the relevant platform. Being half their age and having little experience I do respect their opinion. When I was explaining the application architecture to them, comments were along the lines of:

 - Jeez, no one would pay me to do stuff like that, I have to get things done
 - Stick with what the framework does, don&#39;t use fancy libraries/technologies
 - Don&#39;t wrap framework code. On a team, everyone will write his own wrapper code anyway.
 - You&#39;re using .NET 3.5? Well, we are using 2.0.
 - What does that LINQ stuff buy me? All this query composition and projection seems too complicated.

Now I am asking myself:  
Am I an [architecture astronaut][1]? How do I know I am going too far with architecture? What are common symptoms of over-engineering?


  [1]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html

Concrete symptoms of over-engineering

I am being prompted for user name and password while installing my windows service created in c#. I used the installutil tool to install my service. What is the reason for asking the user name password credentials?

Prompting username password while installing the windows service in c#

<p>I am being prompted for user name and password while installing my windows service created in c#. I used the installutil tool to install my service. What is the reason for asking the user name password credentials?</p>


I have the following code:

    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
    request.Method = &quot;HEAD&quot;;
    request.Credentials = MyCredentialCache;

    try
    {
        request.GetResponse();
    }
    catch
    {
    }

How can I catch a specific 404 error? The WebExceptionStatus.ProtocolError can only detect that an error occurred, but not give the exact code of the error.

For example: 

    catch (WebException ex)
    {
        if (ex.Status != WebExceptionStatus.ProtocolError)
        {
            throw ex;
        }
    }

Is just not useful enough... the protocol exception could be 401, 503, 403, anything really.

How can I catch a 404?

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I have a simple Windows Forms (C#, .NET 2.0) application, built with Visual Studio 2008.

I would like to support multiple UI languages, and using the &quot;Localizable&quot; property of the form, and culture-specific .resx files, the localization aspect works seamlessly and easily. Visual Studio automatically compiles the culture-specific resx files into satellite assemblies, so in my compiled application folder there are culture-specific subfolders containing these satellite assemblies.

I would like to have the application be deployed (copied into place) as a **single assembly**, and yet retain the ability to contain multiple sets of culture-specific resources.

Using [ILMerge][1] (or [ILRepack][2]), I can merge the satellite assemblies into the main executable assembly, but the standard .NET ResourceManager fallback mechanisms do not find the culture-specific resources that were compiled into the main assembly.

Interestingly, if I take my merged (executable) assembly and place copies of it into the culture-specific subfolders, then everything works! Similarly, I can see the main and culture-specific resources in the merged assemby when I use [Reflector][3] (or [ILSpy][4]). But copying the main assembly into culture-specific subfolders defeats the purpose of the merging anyway - I really need there to be just a single copy of the single assembly...

I&#39;m wondering **whether there is any way to hijack or influence the ResourceManager fallback mechanisms to look for the culture-specific resources in the same assembly rather than in the GAC and culture-named subfolders**. I see the fallback mechanism described in the following articles, but no clue as to how it would be modified: [BCL Team Blog Article on ResourceManager][5].

Does anyone have any idea? This seems to be a relatively frequent question online (for example, another question here on Stack Overflow: &quot;[ILMerge and localized resource assemblies][6]&quot;), but I have not found any authoritative answer anywhere.

----------

UPDATE 1: Basic Solution
------------------------

Following [casperOne&#39;s recommendation below][7], I was finally able to make this work.

I&#39;m putting the solution code here in the question because casperOne provided the only answer, I don&#39;t want to add my own.

I was able to get it to work by pulling the guts out of the Framework resource-finding fallback mechanisms implemented in the &quot;InternalGetResourceSet&quot; method and making our same-assembly search the **first** mechanism used. If the resource is not found in the current assembly, then we call the base method to initiate the default search mechanisms (thanks to @Wouter&#39;s comment below).

To do this, I derived the &quot;ComponentResourceManager&quot; class, and overrode just one method (and re-implemented a private framework method):

    class SingleAssemblyComponentResourceManager : 
        System.ComponentModel.ComponentResourceManager
    {
        private Type _contextTypeInfo;
        private CultureInfo _neutralResourcesCulture;
    
        public SingleAssemblyComponentResourceManager(Type t)
            : base(t)
        {
            _contextTypeInfo = t;
        }
    
        protected override ResourceSet InternalGetResourceSet(CultureInfo culture, 
            bool createIfNotExists, bool tryParents)
        {
            ResourceSet rs = (ResourceSet)this.ResourceSets[culture];
            if (rs == null)
            {
                Stream store = null;
                string resourceFileName = null;
    
                //lazy-load default language (without caring about duplicate assignment in race conditions, no harm done);
                if (this._neutralResourcesCulture == null)
                {
                    this._neutralResourcesCulture = 
                        GetNeutralResourcesLanguage(this.MainAssembly);
                }
    
                // if we&#39;re asking for the default language, then ask for the
                // invariant (non-specific) resources.
                if (_neutralResourcesCulture.Equals(culture))
                    culture = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
                resourceFileName = GetResourceFileName(culture);
    
                store = this.MainAssembly.GetManifestResourceStream(
                    this._contextTypeInfo, resourceFileName);
    
                //If we found the appropriate resources in the local assembly
                if (store != null)
                {
                    rs = new ResourceSet(store);
                    //save for later.
                    AddResourceSet(this.ResourceSets, culture, ref rs);
                }
                else
                {
                    rs = base.InternalGetResourceSet(culture, createIfNotExists, tryParents);
                }
            }
            return rs;
        }
    
        //private method in framework, had to be re-specified here.
        private static void AddResourceSet(Hashtable localResourceSets, 
            CultureInfo culture, ref ResourceSet rs)
        {
            lock (localResourceSets)
            {
                ResourceSet objA = (ResourceSet)localResourceSets[culture];
                if (objA != null)
                {
                    if (!object.Equals(objA, rs))
                    {
                        rs.Dispose();
                        rs = objA;
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    localResourceSets.Add(culture, rs);
                }
            }
        }
    }


To actually use this class, you need to replace the System.ComponentModel.ComponentResourceManager in the &quot;XXX.Designer.cs&quot; files created by Visual Studio - and you will need to do this every time you change the designed form - Visual Studio replaces that code automatically. (The problem was discussed in &quot;[Customize Windows Forms Designer to use MyResourceManager][8]&quot;, I did not find a more elegant solution - I use [fart.exe][9] in a pre-build step to auto-replace.)

----------

UPDATE 2: Another Practical Consideration - more than 2 languages
-----------------------------------------------------------------

At the time I reported the solution above, I was actually only supporting two languages, and ILMerge was doing a fine job of merging my satellite assembly into the final merged assembly.

Recently I started working on a similar project where there are *multiple* secondary languages, and therefore multiple satellite assemblies, and ILMerge was doing something very strange: Instead of merging the multiple satellite assemblies I had requested, it was merging the first satellite assembly in multiple times!

eg command-line:

    &quot;c:\Program Files\Microsoft\ILMerge\ILMerge.exe&quot; /t:exe /out:%1SomeFinalProg.exe %1InputProg.exe %1es\InputProg.resources.dll %1fr\InputProg.resources.dll

With that command-line, I was getting the following sets of resources in the merged assembly (observed with ILSpy decompiler):

    InputProg.resources
    InputProg.es.resources
    InputProg.es.resources &lt;-- Duplicated!

After some playing around, I ended up realizing this is just a bug in ILMerge when it encounters **multiple files with the same name** in a single command-line call. The solution is simply to merge each satellite assembly in a different command-line call:

    &quot;c:\Program Files\Microsoft\ILMerge\ILMerge.exe&quot; /t:exe /out:%1TempProg.exe %1InputProg.exe %1es\InputProg.resources.dll
    &quot;c:\Program Files\Microsoft\ILMerge\ILMerge.exe&quot; /t:exe /out:%1SomeFinalProg.exe %1TempProg.exe %1fr\InputProg.resources.dll

When I do this, the resulting resources in the final assembly are correct:

    InputProg.resources
    InputProg.es.resources
    InputProg.fr.resources

So finally, in case this helps clarify, here&#39;s a complete post-build batch file:

    &quot;%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft\ILMerge\ILMerge.exe&quot; /t:exe /out:%1TempProg.exe %1InputProg.exe %1es\InputProg.resources.dll 
    IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 GOTO END
    
    &quot;%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft\ILMerge\ILMerge.exe&quot; /t:exe /out:%1SomeFinalProg.exe %1TempProg.exe %1fr\InputProg.resources.dll 
    IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 GOTO END
    
    del %1InputProg.exe 
    del %1InputProg.pdb 
    del %1TempProg.exe 
    del %1TempProg.pdb 
    del %1es\*.* /Q 
    del %1fr\*.* /Q 
    :END

----------

UPDATE 3: ILRepack
------------------

Another quick note - One of the things that bothered me with ILMerge was that it is an additional proprietary Microsoft tool, not installed by default with Visual Studio, and therefore an extra dependency that makes it that little bit harder for a third party to get started with my open-source projects.

I recently discovered [ILRepack][10], an open-source (Apache 2.0) equivalent that so far works just as well for me (drop-in replacement), and can be freely distributed with your project sources.

----------

I hope this helps someone out there!


  [1]: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22914587-b4ad-4eae-87cf-b14ae6a939b0&amp;displaylang=en#Overview
  [2]: https://github.com/gluck/il-repack
  [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Reflector
  [4]: http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/ILSpy.ashx
  [5]: http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2009/02/16/working-with-the-resourcemanager-kim-hamilton.aspx
  [6]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1613407/ilmerge-and-localized-resource-assembli
  [7]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1952638/single-assembly-multi-language-windows-forms-deployment-ilmerge-and-satellite-as/1955060#1955060
  [8]: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vsx/thread/c87c991d-78cf-4fa3-aa7d-c3531fddbe88
  [9]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fart-it/
  [10]: https://github.com/gluck/il-repack

Single-assembly multi-language Windows Forms deployment (ILMerge and satellite assemblies / localization) - possible?

How do I install a Windows Service programmatically without using installutil.exe?

Installing Windows Service programmatically

I have developed a windows service using C# and Visual&amp;nbsp;Studio&amp;nbsp;2008. I have [Windows&amp;nbsp;XP][1] SP2 installed on my machine. When I try to install the service using the *installutil* tool, after entering the username and password, I get the following error.

&gt; An exception occurred during the Install phase.
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The account name is invalid or does not exist, or the password is invalid for the account name specified.

But the user does exist. I had created the user through control panel &amp;rarr; *User accounts* &amp;rarr; *Create new account*.

The command I used for installing the service was:

    installutil /i TestService.exe

How can I resolve the issue?

  [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP




Error in installing Windows service developed in .NET

I am attempting to install a C# windows service project using a VisualStudio.Net deployment project.  

To run the deployment project I right-click and select &quot;install&quot; from the context menu, the install wizard runs and eventually prompts me with a &quot;Set Service Login&quot; dialog which asks for username &amp; password.  

When I install a service using the sc utility from the command line, I don&#39;t have to provide credentials.

Do I have to create a login just for this service?  I&#39;d prefer to use &quot;Local System&quot; or &quot;Network Service&quot; (not sure what the difference is) as other services do.

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    protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
    {
    	AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException +=
            new UnhandledExceptionEventHandler(CurrentDomain_UnhandledException);
    
        Thread.Sleep(10000);
    
    	throw new Exception();
    }
    
    void CurrentDomain_UnhandledException(object sender,
                                          UnhandledExceptionEventArgs e)
    {
    }

I attached a debugger to the above code in my windows service, setting a breakpoint in CurrentDomain_UnhandledException, but it was never hit. The exception pops up saying that it is unhandled, and then the service stops. I even tried putting some code in the event handler, in case it was getting optimized away.

Is this not the proper way to set up unhandled exception handling in a windows service?

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Solution 3 - C#	this. __curious_geek	View Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 4 - C#	Oded	View Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 5 - C#	Shyam Vemula	View Answer on Stackoverflow

Prompting username password while installing the windows service in c#

C# Problem Overview

C# Solutions

Solution 1 - C#

Solution 2 - C#

Solution 3 - C#

Solution 4 - C#

Solution 5 - C#

Concrete symptoms of over-engineering

Is it possible to debug Global.asax?

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