Building, Installing, and Deploying

Now that we have written the code and created installer components that will allow us to use the .NET Framework to install the service, we need to save and build the project.

Select the Save All option. Visual Studio displays the Save Project dialog box. In the Name text box, type Tutorials. Click Save.

You have multiple ways to build the project. You can right-click the project and choose Build. Or you can choose Build from the menu and click Build Solution. You will be able to determine whether your project’s build was successful by looking at the status bar in the bottom left corner of the IDE. If the build failed, review the error list and correct the errors in the build.

After you build the project successfully, ...

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