Create a Windows Service in .NET That Can Also Run as Console Application

I  want to  create a simple windows service using Visual Studio but  I want to be able to easily test it by simply running the resulting exe without the need to install the service. For that we have to follow the below steps….

• Create a new Windows Service Project as:
  
• Once that’s done, you should have a Program.cs and a Service1.cs file in your project. Just delete the Program.cs
• And now instead add Main method in service1.cs class.
• Now add Some name to your service say MyService.
• Now update the code in Main method with the following the code in the following example.
  

   1 using System;
   2 using System.ServiceProcess;
   3 using System.Timers;
   4 
   5 namespace WindowsService1
   6 {
   7     public partial class MyService  : ServiceBase
   8     {
   9 
  10         public MyService()
  11         {
  12             InitializeComponent();
  13         }
  14 
  15         protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
  16         {
  17             Timer ObjPriTimer = new Timer();
  18             ObjPriTimer.Interval = 1000;
  19             ObjPriTimer.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(ObjPriTimer_Elapsed);
  20             ObjPriTimer.Start();
  21         }
  22 
  23         void ObjPriTimer_Elapsed(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)
  24         {
  25             Console.WriteLine("Welcome to SukeshMarla.Blogspot.com");
  26         }
  27 
  28         protected override void OnStop()
  29         {
  30         }
  31 
  32 
  33         static void Main(string[] args)
  34         {
  35 
  36             MyService  ObjPriMyService = new MyService ();
  37             if (Environment.UserInteractive)
  38             {
  39                 ObjPriMyService.OnStart(args);
  40                 Console.WriteLine("Service started,Press a key to stop!!!");
  41                 Console.ReadKey();
  42                 ObjPriMyService.OnStop();
  43             }
  44             else
  45             {
  46                 Run(ObjPriMyService);
  47             }
  48         }
  49     }
  50 }
  51 

  
  
• Now right click the project from the solution explorer and change the Output Type To Console Application
  
• Now Press F5 that’s it