RussTaylor » InstallUtil.exe http://russtaylor.co.uk Things I've done, seen, or thought about ... Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:27:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Installing a VS2008 service using installutil.exe not working? http://russtaylor.co.uk/2008/07/installing-a-vs2008-service-using-installutilexe-not-working/ http://russtaylor.co.uk/2008/07/installing-a-vs2008-service-using-installutilexe-not-working/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:28:37 +0000 Russ http://russtaylor.co.uk/?p=45 I built a Windows service to host my WCF service today, then added an installer class, with the view I could use installutil.exe to install it. I got the following error

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>installutil.exe C:\Documents and Setting
s\Administrator\Desktop\ORS2\Copy of API\WindowsHostService\bin\Debug\WindowsHos
tService.exe
Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Installation utility Version 1.1.4322.573
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1998-2002. All rights reserved.

Exception occurred while initializing the installation:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or assembly name Documents, or one of its
dependencies, was not found..

The key to the problem is that my Environment Path variable is set to point at .Net framework 1 right through to 3.5, and it appears to default to applications in version 1. I just ran this in the end

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727>InstallUtil.exe “C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\ORS2\API\WindowsHostService\bin\Debug\WindowsHost
Service.exe”

And it worked fine using the ver 2.0 installer.

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