Determine if Service Already Installed

Determine if a Windows service is already installed.

Note:This software is available as a pre-release.

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Chilkat.Service service = new Chilkat.Service();

service.ServiceName = "MyService";

//  returns -1 for failure (inability to check)
//  returns 1 if already installed.
//  returns 0 if not yet installed.
int retval;
retval = service.IsInstalled();
if (retval < 0) {
    MessageBox.Show("Failed to query service control manager");
}
else {
    if (retval == 1) {
        MessageBox.Show("Service is already installed");
    }
    else {
        MessageBox.Show("Service is not installed");
    }

}