installing window service using command prompt

Question

I tried to install my simple window service developed by VS 2012 on Windows 7 64 bit.

For its installation, I follow this Blog

But i got this "InstallUtil.InstallLog" file -

Running a transacted installation.

Beginning the Install phase of the installation. See the contents of the log file for the e:\ABC\WindowService_VS2012\wins_Test.exe assembly's progress. The file is located at e:\ABC\WindowService_VS2012\wins_Test.InstallLog.

An exception occurred during the Install phase. System.Security.SecurityException: The source was not found, but some or all event logs could not be searched. Inaccessible logs: Security.

The Rollback phase of the installation is beginning. See the contents of the log file for the e:\ABC\WindowService_VS2012\wins_Test.exe assembly's progress. The file is located at e:\ABC\WindowService_VS2012\wins_Test.InstallLog.

The Rollback phase completed successfully.

The transacted install has completed.

Please advice me what my missing step is.

Answer 1

Enable and check the fusion logs to see what exactly is going wrong. A quick fusion log demo here: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BackToBasicsUsingFusionLogViewerToDebugObscureLoaderErrors.aspx

Also, ensure that the probing path for your application is properly set in App.config. See here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/823z9h8w.aspx