Re: [WiX-users] The same Windows Service installed under different names

2011-01-14 Thread Christopher Painter
I know from experience that this can be done from an installer perspective.  However, one gotcha that I've seen over the years is that at one company someone had written a C++ windows service that would fail if the service wasn't installed at the service name the application code expected.   At

Re: [WiX-users] The same Windows Service installed under different names

2011-01-14 Thread Thom Leigh
Like you say, multiple MSIs means updates/patches are a headache. You could instead use "instance transforms". From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369523(VS.85).aspx: "you can install multiple instances of a product if you have a separate installation package for each instance of a prod