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This question has been asked elsewhere on SO , but there is no indication of how I get an instance of a HostControl as the post suggests. My TopShelf main program looks like this: public static void Main() { HostFactory.Run(CreateHost); } private static void CreateHost(HostConfigurator x) { x.UseLog4Net(); x.Service<EventBroker>(s => { s.ConstructUsing(name => new EventBroker()); s.WhenStarted(tc => tc.Start()); s.WhenStopped(tc => tc.Stop()); }); x.StartAutomatically(); x.RunAsNetworkService(); } Any suggestions? Change WhenStarted to have HostControl passed to it like this s.WhenStarted((tc,

We are using Topshelf to host a service. Before starting the service, we are making database call to load lot of data. Because of this, while starting the service, we are getting following error: Start Service failed with return code '[7] ServiceRequestTimeout We are using following code to start the service: HostFactory.Run(x => { x.Service<AppService>(s => { s.ConstructUsing(name => new AppService(s_resolver, baseAddress, resolver)); s.WhenStarted(svc => svc.Start()); s.WhenStopped(svc => svc.Stop()); s.WhenShutdown(svc => svc.Shutdown()); }); x.EnableShutdown(); x.RunAsLocalService(); x

I am using Serilog within an TopShelf Service, logging to the console and a rolling file. When running the service in a console my messages are written to the logfile, but when I install the service and run it no logging occurs. Is there anything special I need to configure? The file is written to the binaries folder under ".\logs\log-{date}.txt". Best regards Gope I had a very similar issue. In my case the problem was with relative paths. I just had to specify absolute path. Now it works like a charm. WriteTo.RollingFile(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "\\logs\\log-{Date}.log") Hope

I have a couple Topshelf services that run under a specific service account. If I install the services manually from a command line, I can use the --interactive flag, and a dialog box comes up allowing me to enter the username and password. I'd like to be able to automate this through a Powershell script. Does anyone know how to do this? (Not concerned about Powershell specifically, but with how can I provide the username and password in any installation script.) As Travis mentioned, I took a look at the command line options. Almost working for me, but now I have one escaping issue. To install

So I'm creating my first Wix project and I seem to be having a problem executing a custom action. I'm not sure that it's being included in the msi and I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong. The following is my Wix file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi"> <Product Id="*" Name="ExactaDynamicManifest" Language="1033" Version="1.0.0.0" Manufacturer="Bastian Software Solutions" UpgradeCode="274ff2d9-e291-4706-a8db-ce80ccd91538"> <Package InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" InstallScope="perMachine"/> <MajorUpgrade

I am using Topshelf combined with FluentSchedule for a Windows Service. However, I want to be able to trial-run the application to simply start up and not execute the FluentSchedule code that sets up the timer etc. Is there a way when running the exe file from the Command Line (i.e. without 'install' command) to check from TopShelf that it is running in Console mode? Chris Patterson It's sort of a hack, but you can try to cast the HostControl interface to ConsoleRunHost , and if it's that type, you're running as a console application. It's not ideal, sure, but surely you can hide this in an