Installing the Service Fabric SDK is a pre-requisite for performing this exercise. The following steps can be followed to create a Guest Executable package using Visual Studio:
- Open Visual Studio and choose New Project.
- Select Service Fabric Application.
- Choose the Guest Executable service template.
- Click Browse and select the folder holding the executable to be packaged.
- Fill in other parameters:
- Code Package Behavior: This is ideally set to copy all the content of the folder to the Visual Studio project. There is also an option to link a folder if you require the project to dynamically pick up the executables every time it executes.
- Program: Choose the executable that should run to ...