Wouldn't a true solution be writing a chainer (bootstrapper)?
Otherwise I agree with Christopher: these "why do you think" answers are
implications of something that lies in the philosophy and the "state of
art" - if the developer is assigned to preparing the installation, the
developer thinks like a coder, and is going to assume that he can do
everything with a development environment, be it the WiX or anything else.
So tries to code free... and will come up with tons of questions seeming to
be obvious, but hard to answer. And tons of people (the developers, I mean)
will have to learn WiX from the starts, thus preventing the more
complex, constructive questions from appearing on the list.
The only escape from this trap - I think - can be better organized and more
comprehensive documentations on the subject... there is a need for
improved/new tutorials, books etc.. But we still have to wait for these to
appear AFAIK.
2007/11/14, Christopher Painter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> Talk about to the tail wagging the dog. Customer requirements should
> dictate installation behavior, not the installation technology being used.
>
> There are a number of ways to work around this limitation of MSI. Some
> involve code changes to the service exe and some require using alternative
> methods to publish the assembly and/or start the service. But to imply
> that MSI is perfect ( works as contructed is the term Microsofties like to
> use ) and that the requirement must therefore be void reminds me of the side
> of MSI that I really don't like.
>
>
> *Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote:
>
>
> The problem isn't anything to do with Vista, its because your service
> has a dependency on something in the GAC and the files don't really
> appear in the GAC until after the Commit phase of the install.
>
> Just mark your service as starting automaticly and you shouldn't have
> any problem. Then Windows will start the service when its needed.
> Why do you think that you must start your service before the install
> finishes?
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