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Application as Service - Redistribution

Service installation

For invisible integration of Application as Service software into your programs you need to complete the following steps:

  1. Add app2srv.exe file into your installation package.
  2. Copy this file to your installation directory along with other files of your software.
  3. Register Application as Service on the target PC with your registration info that you receive after purchasing the OEM version. To register, please, use REG instruction:

    app2srv REG "Name" "Code"

    "Name" stands for your registration name and "Code" stands for your registration code you get after the purchase. Note, that you will be able to register Application as Service from the command line only if you own OEM license.
  4. Now you need to register your service using the following installation parameters, all of them can be seen in GUI version (app2srvUI.exe) of our software in "Command Line" field.

    For example:
    app2srv.exe INSTALL /SN="calc" /PM="c:WINDOWS\system32\calc.exe" /WD="c:\WINDOWS\system32" /ID1 /DISP="calc"

    For more examples of command line parameters please see Command line parameters description page

  5. Start the service. You can do it using START or STARTALL commands. You can also start services using Service Control Manager (SCM) or any other software able to accomplish this.
     

Stopping service

Stop the service using app2srv commands STOP or STOPALL, or any other method of stopping a service.

Service uninstallation

Do the following to remove the service from the target system:

  1. Uninstall the service using app2srv commands UNINSTALL or UNINSTALLALL
  2. Delete app2srv.exe file.