Windows Service Template for Visual Studio 2010 Express

October 11, 2011
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I had a need to make a Windows Service, but I was using Visual Studio 2010 Express. You may notice does not come with a Windows Service template. I’m not sure why they decided not to include this template, other than they want to force people to purchase their product to get basic functionality. Little do they know savvy people like you and I do google searches and figure out what we want anyway.

I create this template for Visual Studio 2010 Express: Windows Service with a System.Timer

I created my template by using an existing Visual Studio 2008 (non-express) Windows Service project. I took the service, cleared out the stuff I added, then exported it.

To make it a template simply copy the zip file under %userprofile%\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates\

If it helps let me know!

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ASP.Net, Development, Windows by larmib

One Response to “Windows Service Template for Visual Studio 2010 Express”

  1. Col
    October 13th, 2011 at 13:55

    Hi. Re: windows service in Visual Studio Express.
    I have Visual C# 2010 Express; should it work for this environment?
    The directory “%userprofile%\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#” exists.
    I tried copying the .zip file to ProjectTemplates and to ProjectTemplates\Visual C#,
    and I tried extracting the zip file to these same locations.
    None of these alternatives made the Windows Service Template visible.

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