Thursday, November 15, 2018

System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The specified service already exists

Installing windows service fails: service already exists
connected answer finally pointed Maine within the right direction (why I did not realize that in Google or SO's own search i do not know). Anyway, apparently the Designer.cs generated by Visual Studio additionally creates a process- and service-installer. that in fact install services with an equivalent name as my manually created installers. Removing my very own installers resolved the matter.